HARDWICKE, William. b. Bourne, Lincs. about 1817; ed. at Univ. coll. London and Paris; L.S.A. 1838, M.R.C.S. 1839; M.D. Univ. of Jena 1857; surgeon to St. Pancras royal general dispensary; deputy coroner for central Middlesex, May 1863, coroner 19 Nov. 1874 to death; medical officer of health for Paddington; author of Life and health assurance for the working classes 1864; On the advantages of baths and wash-houses 1874. d. Richmond villa, St. Mary’s terrace, Paddington 15 April 1881. bur. Hendon ch. yard 20 April.
HARDY, Benjamin (3 son of Samuel Hardy of Islington, London). b. 1808; barrister G.I. 23 Nov. 1836; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 1867. d. 8 Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 July 1876.
HARDY, Miss Elizabeth. b. Ireland 1794; author of Michael Cassidy, or the cottage gardener. Thames Ditton, 1845; Owen Glendower, or the Prince in Wales: an historical romance 2 vols. 1849; The confessor: a jesuit tale of the times 1854, all anonymous; imprisoned for a small debt 1852 and d. Queen’s bench prison, London 9 May 1854 aged 60. G.M. June 1854 p. 670.
HARDY, John (eld. son of John Hardy of Horton, parish of Bradford, Yorkshire, who d. 3 June 1806). b. 1773 or 1774; barrister M.T. 7 June 1799, admitted ad eundem at I.T. 1803, bencher 1840, reader 1850; chief steward of honour of Pontefract 1806–33; recorder of Leeds 1806–33; M.P. for Bradford 1832–37 and 1841–47; gave sum of £6000 for erection of churches at Bradford 1848. d. Dunstall hall, Staffs. 29 Sep. 1855.
HARDY, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 23 Feb. 1809; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Midhurst 1859, for Dartmouth 1860, for South Warwickshire 1868–74; created baronet 23 Feb. 1876. d. 22 South st. Park lane, London 9 July 1888.
HARDY, Rev. John Frederic. b. 1826; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, B.D. 1858; Fishmonger fellow of Sidney Sussex coll. 1855 to death; private tutor at Cam.; proctor 1854 and 1875; author of Ascent of the Finster Aar Horn, in Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, Alpine Club 1860 pp. 198–215; Ascent of Ætna, ib. 1860 pp. 280–89; The Col du Sonadon from the top of the Col to Chermontane. ib. 1862 i, 252–8; A visit to the Jökul’s Glacier. ib. 1862 ii, 429–41. d. Sidney Sussex coll. 27 March 1888.
HARDY, John Richard (3 son of Rev. Robert Hardy, V. of Walberton, Sussex). b. 1807; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1829; emigrated to New South Wales 1833; edited the Australian newspaper at Sydney; police magistrate of Yass, of Paramatta 1850; chief commissioner of the gold district, Bathurst 1851. (m. 1835 dau. of Sir Alfred Stephen, chief justice N.S.W.); probably dead. I.L.N. xxi, 9, 125 (1852).
HARDY, Peter (brother of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy 1804–78). b. 17 Dec. 1813; actuary Mutual Assurance office 1837 and London Assurance office 1850; F.R.S. 1839; a founder of the Institute of actuaries 1848; had a large library; author of The doctrine of simple and compound interest, annuities and reversions 1839; A new and general notation for life contingencies 1840. d. Guilford st. London 23 April 1863. Proc. of Royal soc. xiii, p. v (1864).
HARDY, Rev. Robert Spence. b. Preston 1 July 1803; a printer at York 1819; Wesleyan missionary in Ceylon 1825–30, 1835–47, 1862–5; minister at Leeds 1865 to death; hon. mem. of R.A.S. 2 Feb. 1856; author of On the connexion of the British government with the idolatry of Ceylon 1834; Notices of the Holy Land 1835; Eastern monachism, an account of the laws of the order of the Mendicants 1850; A manual of Budhism 1853. d. Headingley near Leeds 16 April 1868. Minutes of Conference (1868) 25–7.
HARDY, Robert William Hale. Entered navy 1806; at capture of island of Java 1811, at siege of New Orleans 1815; lieut. 20 Feb. 1815 after which he did not go afloat; commander 21 Oct. 1861; F.R.A.S. 1849; author of Travels in the interior of Mexico 1829; Incidental remarks on properties of light 1856; Deity as creator, sustainer and user. Prepared in fulfilment of the purpose of R. W. H. Hardy 1874. d. Kilkenny house, Bath 30 July 1871 aged 77. Monthly Notices R.A.S. xxxii, 122 (1872).