Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

HARDING, Francis. b. 28 April 1799; entered navy 24 Jany. 1812, captain 23 Nov. 1841, retired V.A. 24 May 1867; served in Griper discovery ship 1824 in attempt to reach Repulse Bay. d. Cheltenham 2 Jany. 1875.

HARDING, Francis Pym. Ensign 22 foot 16 March 1838, lieut.-col. 25 Sep. 1857 to 5 Dec. 1871 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Balaklava, Jany. 1855 to July 1856; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. the Grove, Lymington, Hants. 25 Feb. 1875.

HARDING, Sir George Judd. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Oct. 1802; served in Sicily, Spain and with the Prussian army 1812–18; colonel commandant R.E. 10 May 1859 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1858; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; governor of Guernsey 22 Nov. 1855 to 1 April 1859. d. Belmont lodge, Guernsey 5 July 1860 aged 72.

HARDING, George Perfect (son of Silvester Harding 1745–1809, artist and publisher). Miniature painter, exhibited 20 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1802–40; made water colour copies of ancient historical portraits; a founder of the Granger soc. 1840, which collapsed in 1843; F.S.A. 1839–47; fell into pecuniary difficulties and sold his collections of drawings; published Eighteen portraits of deans of Westminster 1822–3; Ancient paintings and brasses in the Abbey, Westminster 1825; Description of an account of the Princes of Wales 1828. d. Hercules buildings, Lambeth 23 Dec. 1853. G.M. May 1854 pp. 548–49.

HARDING, James Duffield. b. Deptford 1798; exhibited 39 landscapes at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. 1811–58; Assoc. of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1820, member 1821; a successful teacher; made lithographic drawings for his Sketches at home and abroad 1836, published 1839; Louis Philippe sent him a service of Sevres china; invented papers of various tints and textures 1830 which were known as Harding’s papers; invented lithotint 1841; author of Lessons on art 1849, 8 ed. 1867; The principles and practice of art 1845, another ed. 1876, and 8 other books; furnished the illustrations to 20 works. d. 15 Lonsdale terrace, Barnes, Surrey 4 Dec. 1863. Art Journal 1850 p. 181, portrait, 1856 p. 270, 1864 p. 89; Encyclop. Brit. 9 ed. xi, 473, xiv, 701; I.L.N. xliii, 656, 657 (1863), portrait.

HARDING, Right Rev. John (3 son of Wm. Harding, chief clerk transport office). b. Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Jany. 1805; ed. at Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1851; R. of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe and St. Anne’s, Blackfriars, London 1836–51; sec. of Pastoral aid soc.; bishop of Bombay 31 July 1851, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug., resigned April 1868; author of Texts and thoughts for christian ministers 1874 and charges and single sermons. d. St. Helens lodge, Ore near Hastings 18 June 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 619 (1874).

HARDING, Sir John Dorney (eld. son of Rev. John Harding, R. of Coyty and Coychurch, Glamorganshire). b. Rockfield, Monmouthshire 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1837; student L.I. 1829, student I.T. 1833, barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1835; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 2 Nov. 1837; advocate general 5 March 1852–62 when he retired; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1852; bencher of his inn 1852, reader 1867; Q.C. Jany. 1858; author of An essay on the influence of Welsh tradition upon European literature, By Sir J. D. H. 1840. d. Sandywell asylum, Dowdeswell near Cheltenham 23 Nov. 1868. Mozley’s Reminiscences, ii, 136–41 (1882).

HARDING, Rev. Thomas (4 son of William Harding of St. Margaret’s, Westminster). b. 1806; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; chaplain Bethlehem hospital 1831–3; V. of Bexley, Kent 9 Oct. 1833 to death; editor of H. Bullinger’s Five decades of Godlie sermons, Parker Soc. 4 vols. 1849–52; author of Justification by faith through the propitiation of Christ a safeguard for the times. Three sermons 1868, and 17 single sermons. d. Bexley 12 Nov. 1874.

HARDING, William (3 son of Robert Harding of Upcott, Devon, d. 1804). b. 16 Aug. 1792; ensign 5 foot 11 July 1811, lieut. 1813 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Peninsula 1812 to end of the war; major on h.p. 14 Nov. 1826; F.G.S.; author of History of Tiverton 2 vols. 1845–7. d. Barnstaple 15 Jany. 1886.

HARDING, Wyndham (brother of Sir J. D. Harding 1809–68). b. 9 Aug. 1818; ed. at Rugby; worked on Manchester and Leeds railway 1836–38; sec. to Glasgow, Greenock and Paisley railway 1839, acting general manager to 1844; general superintendent of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1844–45; sec. to London and South Western railway Sep. 1848 to Oct. 1852; A.I.C.E. March 1846, member of council; F.R.S.; freighted at his own expense the first Australian emigrant ship which sailed from Southampton under superintendence of Mrs. Chisholm 184-; author of Railways. The gauge question 1845, 4 ed. 1846; Alphabet of Colour 1853. d. near Cheltenham 15 April 1885. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 97–100 (1856).

HARDINGE, Henry Hardinge, 1 Viscount (3 son of Rev. Henry Hardinge 1754–1820, R. of Stanhope, Durham). b. Wrotham, Kent 30 March 1785; ensign Queen’s Rangers, Upper Canada 1798; deputy quartermaster general in Portuguese army during Peninsular war 1809–14; lieut. col. 40 foot 12 April 1814; captain 1 foot guards 1814–27 when placed on h.p.; served campaign of 1815 with Prussian army as brigadier general; severely wounded at Ligny 16 June 1815, left hand amputated; M.P. for Durham 1820–30, for St. Germans 1830–31, for Newport, Cornwall 1831–32, for Launceston 1832–44; clerk of the ordnance 1823–27 and Jany. to May 1828; sec. of war 1828–30 and 1841–44; P.C. 30 May 1828; second to Duke of Wellington in his duel with the Earl of Winchelsea 21 March 1829; sec. of Ireland 30 July to 26 Nov. 1830 and 17 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; col. of 97 foot 4 March 1833, of 57 foot 31 May 1843 to death; governor general of India 6 May 1844 to 12 Jany. 1848; present at battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshah and Sobraon; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 1 July 1844; created Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and King’s Newton, co. Derby 2 May 1846; granted pension of £5000 per annum by H.E.I. Co. 1846; master general of the Ordnance 5 March 1852; commander in chief 23 Sep. 1852 to 15 July 1856; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 2 Oct. 1855. d. South park near Tunbridge Wells 24 Sep. 1856, 2 portraits of him by Sir Francis Grant in National portrait gallery. Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1 series (1836), portrait; T. Collins’s Portraits and memoirs of eminent naval and military personages (1847) No. 1, portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iii, 130 (1847), portrait; J. J. Briggs’s History of Melbourne in the county of Derby, 2 ed. (1852) 148–57, portrait.

HARDINGE, Rev. Sir Charles, 2 Baronet (son of Rev. Henry Hardinge of Hampton, Middlesex). b. 22 March 1780; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; R. of Crowhurst, Sussex 1804 to death; V. of Tunbridge, Kent 1809 to death; succeeded his uncle 5 Nov. 1826; author of Plain discourses 1821; A practical exposition of the election of grace 1847; Baptismal regeneration 1850. d. Boundes Park, Tunbridge Wells 3 Feb. 1864.

HARDINGE, Richard. b. 14 April 1790; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 May 1806, col. 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1825. d. 32 Hyde park sq. London 20 July 1864.

HARDMAN, Edward Townley. b. Drogheda 6 April 1845; ed. at R. coll. of science, Dublin; on staff of geological survey, Ireland 1870 and 1885; F.R.G.S. Ireland; F. Chem. soc.; went to Kimberley district, West Australia and reported on the mineral resources and the gold fields 1883–5, a range of mountains in West Australia named after him; wrote many papers in Journal Geol. Soc. of Ireland and Proc. of Irish Acad. from 1871 onward. d. Wicklow 30 April 1887. Geological Mag. (1887) p. 334.

HARDMAN, Frederick (son of Joseph Hardman, merchant). b. London 1814; lieut. in British legion in Spain 1834; Times foreign correspondent in Spain, Turkey, Russia, Italy and France 1850 to death; a regular contributor to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1840; author of The student of Salamanca 1847, anon.; The Spanish campaign in Morocco 1860. d. Paris 6 Nov. 1874. Times 13 Nov. 1874 p. 6, 28 Nov. p. 10; Graphic, x, 512 (1874), portrait.

HARDMAN, John (son of John Hardman of Birmingham, metal button maker). b. Birmingham 7 Aug. 1811; partner with his father; founded ecclesiastical metal works at Birmingham 1838, added stained-glass works 1845, in which business he enjoyed a practical monopoly; founded in St. Chad’s R.C. cathedral, Birmingham a choir for performance of the Gregorian chant which he superintended personally 18 years and endowed with sum of £1000. d. Pemberton villa, Clifton 29 May 1867. bur. in crypt of St. Chad’s cathedral.

HARDMAN, Juliana (sister of the preceding). b. 26 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine convent of Caverswall, Staffs.; made her religious profession 19 Aug. 1841 assuming the name of Mary; superioress of convent of Our Lady of Mercy at Handsworth near Birmingham (founded by her father) 6 Sep. 1841 to 1876 during which time 59 sisters were professed there; founded a convent of her institute at Nottingham 1844; built church of St. Mary’s, Brougham st. Birmingham 1847. d. at the convent, Handsworth 24 March 1884.

HARDMAN, Sir William (only son of William Bridge Hardman of Chamber hall, Bury, Lancs.) b. Bury 13 Aug. 1828; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister I.T. 30 April 1852; recorder of Kingston-on-Thames, June 1875 to death; inspector of Woking convict prison; chairman Surrey sessions second court 1871–2, first court 1877 to death; contested East Surrey 1868; a founder of the Primrose league 1882, chairman of the grand council; knighted at Osborne 29 Dec. 1885; alderman of Surrey county council; editor of Morning Post 1872 to death. d. St. Leonards on Sea 12 Sep. 1890. bur. Kingston cemetery 16 Sep. I.L.N. 20 Sep. 1890 p. 374, portrait; Pictorial World 25 Sep. 1890 p. 396, portrait; Sell’s World’s Press 1891 p. 85, portrait.

HARDWICK, Ven. Charles. b. Slingsby near Malton, Yorkshire 22 Sep. 1821; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1859; Skrine fellow of his college 1845; Whitehall preacher 1851; prof. of divinity Queen’s coll. Birmingham, March-Sep. 1853; divinity lecturer at King’s coll. Cam. 1855 to death; Christian advocate in univ. of Cam. 1855 to death; mem. of council of senate 1856 to death; archdeacon of Ely 1859; author of A history of the Articles of religion, By C. H. 1851, 3 ed. 1876; History of Christian church, Middle Age 1853, 3 ed. 1872; Twenty sermons 1853; Christ and other masters, an inquiry into the contrast between Christianity and religious systems of ancient world 4 parts 1855–9; edited works for Percy Soc. and for the University press; killed by falling over a precipice near the Port de Venasque in the Pyrenees 18 Aug. 1859. bur. Luchon cemetery 21 Aug. Christ and other masters, 2 ed. 1863, with memoir; G.M. vii, 419–21 (1859).

HARDWICK, Charles (son of an innkeeper, d. 1835). b. Preston 10 Sep. 1817; apprentice to a printer 1831; portrait painter Preston; member Pleasant Retreat lodge, Preston 1841, sec. 1845, chairman; grand master Manchester Unity of Odd-Fellows 1857–8; founder and V.P. of Manchester literary club; author of History of the borough of Preston 1857; The history of Friendly societies 1859, 2 ed. 1869; Traditions, superstitions and folk-lore 1872; On some battlefields in Lancashire 1882; editor of Country Words, a North of England Mag. 1866–7. d. Manchester 8 July 1889. Quarterly Mag. of Odd-Fellows, i, 321–6 (1858), portrait; Academy 20 July 1889 p. 39.

HARDWICK, John (1 son of Thomas Hardwick 1752–1829, architect). b. 3 Dec. 1791; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., fellow 1808–22; B.C.L. 1815, D.C.L. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 June 1816; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth 1821, at High st. Marylebone 1840–1, at Great Marlborough st. 1841, retired March 1856; F.R.S. 5 April 1838. d. 101 Lansdowne place, Brighton 31 May 1875. Law Times 12 June 1875 p. 127; I.L.N. 9 Oct. 1847 p. 236, portrait.

HARDWICK, Philip (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Rathbone place, London 15 June 1792; ed. at Royal academy sch.; exhibited 23 drawings at R.A. 1807–44; architect London 1819 some of his chief works were the St. Katharine’s dock house 1827–8, the Goldsmiths’ Co. hall 1829–35, Babraham house, Cambs. 1832, Euston station and hotel London 1834–9, Lincoln’s inn hall and library 1842–5; F.S.A. 1824, member of council 1842; M.I.C.E. 13 April 1824; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1831; M.I.B.A. 1834, V.P. 1839 and 1841; F.G.S. 1837; A.R.A. 1840, R.A. 1841; published Drawings of the hall and library, Lincoln’s inn, with text 1842. d. at his son’s residence, Westcombe lodge, Wimbledon common, Surrey 28 Dec. 1870. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii, 202 (1862).

HARDWICKE, Charles Philip Yorke, 4 Earl of (eld. child of Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, K.C.B. 1768–1831). b. Sydney lodge, Southampton 2 April 1799; ed. at Harrow; midshipman R.N. 15 May 1815, captain 6 June 1825, admiral on h.p. 3 Dec. 1863; M.P. for Reigate 1831–32, for Cambs. 1832 to 18 Nov. 1834 when he succeeded his uncle as 4 Earl; lord lieut. of Cambs. 31 Dec. 1834 to death; LLD. Cam. 1835, D.C.L. Ox. 1853; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; postmaster general 1 March to 28 Dec. 1852; lord keeper of the privy seal 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859. d. Sydney lodge, Southampton 17 Sep. 1873. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters, i, 30–38 (1841); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 518–23; I.L.N. ii, 57 (1843), portrait.

HARDWICKE, Robert. b. Dyke near Bourn, Lincs., Sep. 1823; printer with Bateman near Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, at 26 Duke st. Piccadilly to 1856; publisher at 192 Piccadilly 1856 to death; one of founders of Quekett microscopical club 1865; F.L.S.; published Hardwicke’s Science Gossip 1865 to death, and other periodicals. d. 192 Piccadilly, London 8 March 1875. Publishers’ Circular (1875) p. 202.

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).

HARDY, Samuel Little. b. 1815; L. and L.M.R.C.S. Ireland 1839 and fellow 1844; M.D. Glasgow 1840; licentiate K.Q.C.P. and L.M. 1852, fellow 1868; M.R.I.A. 1858; physician Pitt st. Instit. for diseases of children, Dublin; physician accoucheur Steevens’ hospital; president Obstetrical soc. 1867; one of the first to recommend chloroform as a local anæsthetic; had a large obstetrical practice; author with A. H. Mac Clintock of Practical observations on midwifery 1848; contributed to Dublin medical journals 1845 &c. d. 9 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 29 Oct. 1868. Medical Times 7 Nov. 1868 p. 544.

HARDY, Sir Thomas Duffus (3 son of Thomas Bartholomew Price Hardy, major R.A.) b. Port Royal, Jamaica 22 May 1804; junior clerk in Public record office, Tower of London 1 Jany. 1819; assistant keeper of public records 1840, deputy keeper 15 July 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869; did much to render the records accessible to the public; instrumental in appointment of Historical MSS. commission 1869; edited Description of the Close Rolls in the Tower 1833 and six other works for the old Record commission; A descriptive catalogue of MSS. relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland 3 vols. 1862–71 and other works for the Rolls series; author of A catalogue of the Lords Chancellors, Keepers of the Great seal, &c. 1843; Life of Henry Lord Langdale 1852. d. 126 Portsdown road, Maida vale, London 15 June 1878. Times 17 June 1878 p. 12 col. 6.

HARDY, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Jamaica 6 July 1807; clerk in Record office, Tower of London 1823; keeper of records of duchy of Lancaster 1830–68; assistant keeper in Record office, Fetter lane, London 1868 and deputy keeper 4 July 1878, resigned 27 Jany. 1886; reorganised the record office and commenced the commission for the destruction of valueless documents; F.S.A. 4 May 1837; placed on Historical MSS. commission 1878; knighted at Osborne 31 Dec. 1883; compiled Charters of duchy of Lancaster 1845; translated A collection of the chronicles by J. de Waurin 1858. d. Milton cottage, 71 St. Germain’s road, Forest hill, London 17 March 1887. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi, 369 (1887).

HARE, Sir John (2 son of John Hare of Firfield near Bristol, floor cloth manufacturer). b. 1784; partner in his father’s business to 1840 when he retired; owner of the Cambria which saved the passengers and crew of Kent East Indiaman in the bay of Biscay 1 March 1825; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 on presenting address on queen’s marriage; resided Brislington, Somerset. d. Hardelot castle près Tamar, Pas-de-Calais, France 2 Feb. 1865.

HARE, John Middleton (son of Rev. Edward Hare, wesleyan minister, d. 1818). Ed. at Woodhouse grove sch. near Leeds 1813; apprentice to James Nichols, printer, London, where he also served as a reader and editor; edited Gem Annual in succession to Tom Hood; sub-edited The Sphynx weekly paper for J. S. Buckingham 4 vols. 1827–8; assist. commissioner on popular education 1858; director of British Equitable life assurance co.; author of An analysis and exposure of the government scheme of education 1847; Familiar colloquies between a father and his children 1862. Dead?

HARE, Ven. Julius Charles (3 son of Francis Hare-Naylor 1753–1815). b. Valdagno near Vicenza 13 Sep. 1795; ed. at Bologna 1797–9 and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1818, classical lecturer 1822; R. of Hurstmonceaux, Sussex 18 June 1832 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 10 April 1840 to death; preb. of Chichester, Jany. 1851 to death; chaplain to the Queen 13 June 1853 to death; translated with Connop Thirlwall Niebuhr’s History of Rome 2 vols. 1828–32; author of The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 1876 and other books; author with his brother A. W. Hare of Guesses at Truth, By Two Brothers, 1st series 1827, 2nd series 1848, new ed. 1871. d. Hurstmonceaux rectory 23 Jany. 1855. A. J. C. Hare’s Memorials of a quiet life (1884) 2 vols.; Sussex archæological collection, iv, 125–208; Quarterly Review, xcvii, 1–28 (1855); M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 255–6; Guardian 8 March 1882 pp. 349–50.

HARE, Maria (dau. of Rev. Oswald Leycester, rector of Stoke-upon-Terne, Salop). b. Toft near Knutsford 22 Nov. 1798; good classical scholar; intimate acquaintance of Reginald Heber, bp. of Calcutta. (m. 2 June 1829 Rev. Augustus William Hare, rector of Alton Barnes d. Rome 18 Feb. 1834); author of A true and sad story 1862; wrote a portion of and collected materials for Memorials of a Quiet Life; lived in Hurstmonceaux parish near her brother in law the Rev. Julius Charles Hare from 1834 for many years. d. Holmhurst 13 Nov. 1870. A. J. C. Hare’s Memorials of a quiet life (1884) 2 vols., 2 portraits; C. Kegan Paul’s Biographical Sketches (1883) 71–92.