HARTLAND, Frederick Augustus. b. 25 Dec. 1783; one of the best pantomimists, associated with Grimaldi at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1802; struck on the head by a plank from a scaffold in Mount st. Westminster road, London 16 Aug. 1852, died on his way to St. Thomas’ hospital, bur. St. Mary Newington ch. yard. Era 22 Aug. 1852 p. 12.
HARTLEY, Humphrey Robert. b. 24 Aug. 1794; ensign 57 foot 8 Oct. 1812, lieut. col. 12 April 1831 to 4 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; introduced the first savings’ bank in the British army at Madras 6 Nov. 1832, and libraries for noncommissioned officers. d. 27 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Aug. 1854.
HARTLEY, James. Large shipowner at Dublin; director of some of principal steam companies in the United Kingdom; found dead in his cabin on board the ‘Nubia’ between Ceylon and Suez 11 April 1857.
HARTLEY, James (son of John Hartley of Harborne, Staffs., d. 1830). b. Dumbarton 1810; partner in Chance, Hartley & Co. glass makers, Smethwick; first to use sulphate of soda in crown glass; used a thimble instead of an iron bar in blowing glass; the first in England to make German sheet-glass; removed to Sunderland and erected glasshouses 1833; invented Hartley’s patent rolled plate 1847 used in Great Exhibition building 1851, made from it a fortune; mayor of Sunderland 1851–3; M.P. Sunderland 1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. Ashbrooke hall, Sunderland 24 May 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv, 409–12 (1887).
HARTLEY, Jesse (son of a bridge master in N.R. Yorkshire). b. near Pontefract 1780; apprentice to a mason; surveyor of the Liverpool docks 1824 to death, constructed or altered every dock there 1824–60; completed the Grosvenor bridge over the river Dee at Chester, which had the largest single span stone arch (200 feet) in existence at the time 1832. d. Bootle Marsh near Liverpool 24 Aug. 1860. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 219–22 (1872).
Note.—His son John Bernard Hartley who was b. 3 Sep. 1814 and d. 14 Dec. 1869, was joint surveyor of Liverpool docks with his father from July 1847.
HARTLEY, Leonard Lawrie (only child of Archibald Campbell, surgeon, d. Bedale, Yorkshire 1837 by Mary dau. of Leonard Hartley). b. 1816; assumed the name of Hartley by r.l. on 15 July 1841 after death of his uncle George Hartley of Middleton Tyas, Yorks.; collected a library of 60,000 volumes chiefly on topography, books sold for £9636 14s. 6d. June 1885. d. 138 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 27 Dec. 1883, his heir at law advertised for 7 Feb. 1884. Times 7 Feb. 1884 p. 1.
HARTMAN, Sir Julius. b. 6 May 1774; captain artillery King’s German Legion 9 Nov. 1803, major 12 April 1806 to 24 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; re-entered Hanoverian service 1816, L.G. 1836; hon. K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; cr. a baron of Kingdom of Hanover by George V. King of Hanover 1855 or 1856, only baron he created. d. Hanover 7 June 1856. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x, 688–91 (1879).
HARTNOLL, John Hooper. b. 1799 or 1800; mathematical master Greenwich hospital sch., retired on a pension; started The Kentish Mercury 1832, proprietor and editor to his decease; proprietor and editor of Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor 1839 and Post Magazine Almanac and Insurance Directory 1854; author of The annual balance sheets of all the insurance companies, with a letter on the Joint Stock Companies’ registration act 1853, 2 ed. 1853. d. Bexley house, Greenwich 6 June 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 174 (1870); Kentish Mercury 11 June 1870 p. 4.
HARTOG, Numa Edward (1 son of Alphonse Hartog, professor of French). b. London 20 May 1846; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; B.A. and B.Sc. London 1864; foundation scholar of Trin. coll. Cam. 1866, senior wrangler 1869 the first Jew who won that distinction; admitted B.A. without taking usual oath 29 Jany. 1869; second Smith prizeman 1869, religious tests prevented him becoming fellow of his college; gave evidence before house of lords on religious tests 3 March 1871. d. of small pox Belsize sq. Hampstead, London 19 June 1871. Times 21, 22, 23 June 1871; Jewish Chronicle 23 June 1871.