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HANNA, REV. SAMUEL, _b._ Kellswater near Ballymena, co. Antrim 1772;
ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1789, D.D. 1818; presbyterian minister,
Drumbo, co. Down 1795 and at Rosemary st. Belfast 1799 to death;
professor of divinity and ch. history at Assembly’s coll. Belfast
1817; moderator of synod of Ulster 1809; first moderator of the
general presbyterian assembly 1840; author of single sermons and
pamphlets, _d._ at residence of his son in law Rev. Dr. Denham,
James st. Londonderry 23 April 1852. _bur._ Belfast 30 April,
portrait in hall of Assembly’s coll. Belfast. _Belfast News Letter
26 April 1852 p._ 2.

HANNA, REV. WILLIAM (_son of preceding_). _b._ Belfast 26 Nov. 1808;
ed. at Glasgow univ., LLD. 1852, and at Edin. univ., D.D. 1864;
presbyterian minister East Kilbride near Glasgow 1835 and at
Skirling, Peebleshire 1837–43; minister of Free ch. Skirling
1843–50; colleague of Rev. Thos. Guthrie in St. John’s Free ch.
Edin. 1850–66; ed. of _North British Review_; author of _Memoirs
of the life and writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D._ _4 vols._
1849–52; _The Posthumous works of Thomas Chalmers_ _9 vols._ 1847;
_Last days of our Lord’s passion_ 1862 which circulated 50,000
copies, and many other works. _d._ 77 Coleshill st. Eaton sq.
London 24 May 1882. _Guardian, May 1882 p._ 760; _Scott’s Fasti,
vol. i, pt. i, p._ 229.

HANNAH, REV. JOHN (_3 son of a small coal dealer_). _b._ Lincoln 3
Nov. 1792; appointed Wesleyan Methodist minister 1814; went to
America as representative to the Conferences 1824 and 1856;
theological tutor at theological training institutions at Hoxton
and Stoke Newington 1834–42; sec. of Conference 1840–2, 1854–8,
president 1842 and 1851; theological tutor at Didsbury, Yorkshire
1843 to death; author of _Memoirs of Rev. D. Stowe_ 1828;
_Documents relating to British and Canadian conferences_ 1860 and
other works. _d._ Didsbury 29 Dec 1867. _Introductory Lectures on
Theology, By J. Hannah_ (1875) _with Memoir by W. B. Pope pp._
1–69; _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1876) 118–23; _I.L.N. i_,
200 (1842), _portrait_.

HANNAH, VEN. JOHN (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._ Lincoln 16 July
1818; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox. 1837; Lincoln scholar of Corpus
Christi 1837–40, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, D.C.L. 1853; fellow of
Lincoln 1840–4; Bampton lecturer 1863; rector of Edinburgh academy
1847–52; warden of Trinity coll. Glenalmond, Perth 1854–70; V. of
Brighton 1870 to Dec. 1887 which he divided into 11 ecclesiastical
districts; prebendary of Chichester 1874–76; archdeacon of Lewes
1876 to death; editor of _Poems and psalms by H. King, bishop of
Chichester_ 1843; _Poems by Sir H. Wotton and Sir W. Raleigh_
1845, _2 ed._ 1875; author of _Discourse on the fall and its
result_ 1857 and other books. _d._ Brighton vicarage 1 June 1888.
_Times 2 June 1888 p._ 13, _col._ 6.

HANNAN, JOHN. _b._ St. Giles’s, London 29 Sep. 1817; a pugilist
known as the Drury lane Irishman; beat Dan Dismore 6 June 1837,
£25 a side; beaten by Tom Maley 30 Aug. 1838, £25 a side; beat
John Walker 1 Nov. 1838, £25 a side, beat him again 2 April 1839
in 3 hours and 48 minutes, £50 a side; beaten by Byng Stocks 11
June 1839, £25 a side; beat Dick Forsey 14 April 1840, £25 a side;
fought John Broome known as Young Ducrow £500 a side at New park
farm near Bicester 26 Jany. 1841 when Broome won after 47 rounds
in 79 minutes, the amount fought for was the largest since Ward
and Cannon fought 1825. _d._ 7 King st. Soho, London 18 Oct. 1857.
_Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring_ (1888) 101–111.

HANNAY, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Kirkcudbright 27 Feb. 1822; ed. at
Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Yale univ. 1881; congregational minister
Prince’s st. ch. Dundee 1846 to 1862; minister City road ch.
London 1862–6, at West Croydon 1866–70; sec. Colonial missionary
soc.; sec. Congregational union of England and Wales 10 May 1870
to death; author of _The claims of the temperance movement on the
churches_ 1868; _How is England to be saved? An appeal to young
men_ 1877. _d._ Lincluden, Sunnyside road, Hornsey Rise 12 Nov.
1890. _I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p._ 678, _portrait_.

HANNAY, JAMES (_1 son of David Hannay 1794–1864, banker, author of
Ned Allen_). _b._ Dumfries 17 Feb. 1827; midshipman R.N. 1840–45;
reporter on _Morning Chronicle_ 1846; contributed to _Pasquin_ a
comic paper 1847; contested Dumfries burghs May 1857; editor of
_Edinburgh Evening Courant_ 1860–64; consul at Barcelona 13 July
1868 to death; author of _King Dobbs, Sketches in Ultramarine_
1849; _Blackwood v. Carlyle: a vindication, by a Carlylian_ 1850;
_Singleton Fontenoy, R.N._ _3 vols._ 1850; _Satires and satirists:
six lectures_ 1854; _Sand and shells_ 1854 which contains notices
of his naval career; _Eustace Conyers_ _3 vols._ 1855; _Three
hundred years of a Norman house, the barons of Gournay_ 1867;
_Studies on Thackeray_ 1869. _d._ Putchet, Barcelona 9 Jany. 1873.
_Temple Bar_, _xxxviii_, 89–94 (1873), _xlix_, 234–47 (1877); _The
Critic xvii_, 629 (1858), _portrait_.

NOTE.—He is described under the name of Eglinton Conyers in
The Club and the Drawing Room by Cecil Hay _2 vols._ 1870.

HANNAY, ROBERT (_son of James Hannay of Kirkcudbright_). _b._
Lock-Bank, Castle-Douglas 1789; ed. at gram. sch. Annan and at
Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812; member of Speculative soc.; advocate
in Scotland 1814; visited libraries of the Vatican and Stockholm;
gave evidence on British museum before house of commons 1836;
author of _Address to Lord Hope on collecting and reporting
decisions_ 1821; _Defence of the usury laws_ 1823; _History of the
representation of England, drawn from records_ 1831. _d._ Kew,
Surrey 2 Feb. 1868. _Journal of Jurisprudence_, _xii_, 218 (1869);
_Rep. on British Museum_ (1836) 418–26.

HANNINGTON, RIGHT REV. JAMES (_3 son of Charles Smith Hannington,
warehouseman_). _b._ Hurstpierpoint near Brighton 3 Sep. 1847; ed.
at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1875, D.C.L. 1884; C. of
Martinhoe and Trentishoe, Devon 1874–75; C. of St. George’s,
Hurstpierpoint 1875–82, 1883; missionary in Central Africa 1882–3;
bishop of Eastern equatorial Africa, consecrated at Lambeth 24
June 1884; author of _Peril and adventure in Central Africa_ 1886;
headed an expedition to the Lake Victoria Nyanza 23 July 1885,
murdered by order of Mwanga king of U-Ganda 29 Oct. 1885. _E. C.
Dawson’s James Hannington_ (1887), _portrait_.

HANOVER, ERNEST AUGUSTUS, King of (_5 son of George III._) _b._ Kew
6 June 1771; ed. at Univ. of Gottingen 1786–90; K.G. 2 June 1786,
installed 28 May 1801; commanded first brigade of Hanoverian
cavalry 1794, lost his left eye in battle of Tournay 10 May 1794;
created Earl of Armagh and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale 24
April 1799; badly wounded in his apartments St. James’s palace,
London 31 May 1810 by his Italian valet Sellis who then cut his
own throat; col. of 15 hussars 28 March 1801, of royal horse
guards 22 Jany. 1827 to Nov. 1830; field marshal 26 Nov. 1813;
served in campaigns of 1813–14; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H 12 Aug.
1815; K.P. 20 Aug. 1821; king of Hanover 20 June 1837, immediately
revoked the constitution, granted a new constitution 1840. _d._
Herrenhausen palace, Hanover 18 Nov. 1851. _C. A. Wilkinson’s
Court of King Ernest_ _2 vols._ (1886), _portrait_; _Jesse’s
Memoirs of life of George III._ (1867) _iii_, 541–6; _Sir N. H.
Nicolas’s Orders of knighthood_, _iv_, (1842), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
ii_, 410 (1843), _portrait_; _Annual Register_ (1833) 90–96.

HANOVER, GEORGE FREDERICK ALEXANDER CHARLES ERNEST AUGUSTUS, King of
(_only son of preceding_). _b._ Berlin 27 May 1819; G.C.H. 1830;
at cricket match at Windsor struck himself in eye while swinging
round a long purse and blinded himself 1833; K.G. 15 Aug. 1835;
lost sight of his other eye by Dr. Karl Gräfe of Berlin cutting
through the optic nerve while operating June 1840; succeeded his
father as Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover 18 Nov. 1851,
revoked constitution 1855; took part with Austria in Seven Weeks
war 1866, Hanover incorporated with Prussia by royal decree 20
Sep. 1866; general in British army 27 May 1876; visited England 16
May to 17 June 1876. _d._ Rue de Presbourg, Paris 12 June 1878.
_bur._ St. George’s chapel, Windsor 25 June. _Allgemeine Deutsche
Biographie_, _viii_, 657–70 (1878); _Almanac de Gotha_ (1853),
_portrait_; _Contemporary Review_, _xxxix_, 646–64 (1881); _Times
13–26 June 1878_; _I.L.N. 25 June 1853 p._ 508, _portrait_.

HANSELL, REV. EDWARD HALIFAX (_4 son of Peter Hansell, V. of
Worstead, Norfolk, d. 1841_). _b._ St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, Norwich
6 Nov. 1814; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox. 1832; a demy of Magd. coll.
1832–47, fellow 1847–53; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838, B.D. 1847; tutor of
Merton coll. 1845–9; V.P. of Magd. college 1852, fellow, tutor and
mathematical lecturer and prælector of theology there 1852–6; R.
of East Ilsley, Berks. 1865 to death; author of _Notes on the
first essay in Essays and Reviews_ 1850; _The sorrows of the
Cross_ 1880, _2 ed._ 1881; ed. of _Codex A. B. D. Z. et
Sinaiticus. Nov. Test. Græce._ _3 vols._ 1864. _d._ East Ilsley 8
May 1884.

HANSLER, SIR JOHN JACOB (_1 son of John Jacob Hansler, Landaman of
canton Zurich_). _b._ St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 1788;
knighted at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837 being the first knight
created by Victoria; F.R.S. Jany. 1838; F.S.A.; D.L. for Essex.
_d._ 3 H. The Albany, Piccadilly, London 28 April 1867. _Dodd’s
Peerage_ (1841) 167.

HANSOM, JOSEPH ALOYSIUS (_son of Henry Hansom of York, builder, who
d. 16 Feb. 1854 aged 75_). _b._ York 26 Oct. 1803; architect with
Edward Welch at Halifax 1828, they became bankrupt 25 April 1834;
managed the bank, coal mines and estates of Dempster Hemming of
Caldecote hall, Warws.; registered a patent safety cab 23 Dec.
1834, sold his rights in it for £10,000 but money never paid, the
principal of safety consisted in the suspended or cranked axle,
the back seat for the driver was not in the original patent;
founded _The Builder_ newspaper, No. 1 published 31 Dec. 1842;
architect at Preston 1847–54, at Edinburgh, at Clifton, at
Ramsgate, in London 1862–79; built the spire of St. Walburge’s
church, Preston 306 feet high, the loftiest in England since the
Reformation; designed church at Arundel for Duke of Norfolk. _d._
399 Fulham road, London 29 June 1882. _Gillow’s English Catholics,
iii_, 115–20 (1888); _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 56 (1882), _portrait_.

HANSON, ALFRED (_eld. son of Joshua Flesher Hanson of Backwell,
Somerset_). _b._ 29 June 1816; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843;
junior counsel to comrs. of customs, &c. 1853–65; revising
barrister for London 1861–64; comptroller of legacy and succession
duties at Somerset House, July 1865 to death; author of _The
Succession duty act, with decisions and notes_ 1865; _The acts
relating to probate legacy and succession duties, By A. H._ 1870,
_3 ed._ 1876; _The Revenue acts of 1880 and 1881 and Death duties_
1883. _d._ 1 Upper Westbourne terrace, London 6 Jany. 1886.

HANSON, SIR RICHARD DAVIES. _b._ London 6 Dec. 1805; solicitor 3
Philpot lane, London 1828; editor of the _Globe_ and a writer for
the _Morning Chronicle_ 1828; asst. comr. in enquiry on crown
lands Canada 1838; crown prosecutor Wellington, N.Z. 1840–6;
advocate general South Australia 1851; attorney general 1856–57;
attorney general and leader of government 1857–60; chief justice
of supreme court Nov. 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 9
July 1869; acting governor of S. Australia 1872–3; first
chancellor of Adelaide univ. 1874; author of _The Jesus of
history_ 1869; _Letters to and from Rome, By V. S. C._ 1873; _The
apostle Paul and the preaching of Christianity_ 1875. _d._
Australia 4 March 1876. _I.L.N. lv_, 117 (1869), _portrait_.

HANSON, LOUISA. Widow of James Hanson, captain R.N. who was lost in
the Brazen sloop of war off Newhaven, April 1800 when all on board
were lost except one man. _d._ Marl house, Bexley, Kent 2 July
1884 aged 103. 47 _Rep. Registrar General_ (1886) _p. lxxxi_.

HANSON, SAMUEL (_son of an orange merchant_). _b._ 47 Botolph lane,
Eastcheap, London, Sep. 1804; the leading dealer in the green and
dried fruit trade from about 1833, retired 1871, the firm
commenced business in 1747; a founder of Commercial Union
Association 1862. _d._ Zurich, Switzerland 11 Feb. 1882. _bur._
Zurich. _City Press 18 Feb. 1882 p._ 4.

HANWELL, JOSEPH. _b._ about 1790; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 May 1806, captain
5 June 1835 to 10 April 1845 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 24
Aug. 1866. _d._ Belleville, Ontario, Canada 5 July 1873.

HARCOURT, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Parker Hillier. _b._ June
1838; made his first public appearance at St. James’ theatre,
London 30 March 1863 as Robert Audley in _Lady Audley’s Secret_;
lessee of Marylebone theatre 1871–2; played at most of the London
theatres, one of best exponents of character of Mercutio; sec. of
National dramatic academy Jany. 1880 to death; played Bashford in
_The World_ at Drury lane from 31 July 1880; while rehearsing at
Haymarket theatre fell into the scene dock 18 Oct. 1880. _d._
Charing Cross hospital 27 Oct. 1880. _Graphic 6 Nov. 1880 pp._
437, 438, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 6 Nov. 1880 p._
173, _portrait_; _W. H. Rideing’s Dramatic Notes_ (1881) _p._ 37.

HARCOURT, EGERTON VENABLES VERNON (_youngest son of Most Rev. Edward
Vernon Harcourt 1757–1814, archbishop of York_). _b._ Rose castle,
Cumberland 7 June 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–34; B.A.
1825, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; principal registrar
of province of York 1842 to death; registrar of diocese of York
1842 to death; gave sum of £9,000 to archbishop of York to form a
fund for augmentation of poor livings in Yorkshire, distributed
Feb. 1891. _d._ Whitwell hall, Yorkshire 19 Oct. 1883. _Proc. of
Royal Geog. Soc. v_, 663 (1883).

HARCOURT, FRANCIS VERNON (_10 child of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt_).
_b._ Rose castle, Cumberland 7 Jany. 1801; ensign 1 foot guards 7
Sep. 1820, captain 1834 to 7 Aug. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col.
in the army 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1852–57; sheriff
of Sussex 1867; author of _Hints to young officers on military law
and courts martial_ 1833. _d._ Buxted park near Uckfield, Sussex
23 April 1880.

HARCOURT, FREDERICK EDWARD VERNON (_5 son of Most Rev. E. V.
Harcourt_). _b._ May 1790; entered navy 13 Feb. 1803, captain 7
June 1814, retired admiral 20 May 1862; author of _The Protestant
missionary’s catechism_ 1853; wrote Tracts for British Soc. for
promoting principles of Reformation 1843 etc. _d._ 47 Cadogan
place, London 30 April 1883.

HARCOURT, GEORGE SIMON (_1 son of John Simon Harcourt, M.P.
Westbury_). _b._ 5 Feb. 1807; ed. at Eton; matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox.
1825; sheriff of Bucks. 1834; M.P. for Bucks. 1837–41. _d._ 35 St.
George’s sq. Belgravia, London 24 Oct. 1871.

HARCOURT, GEORGE GRANVILLE VENABLES (_1 son of Most Rev. E. V.
Harcourt_). _b._ Sudbury 6 Aug. 1785; ed. at Westminster and Ch.
Ch. Ox., student 1803–14; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1810; barrister L.I. 13
May 1817; M.P. for Lichfield 1806–30; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1831 to
death; chancellor and commissary of diocese of York 1818 to death.
_d._ Strawberry hill, Twickenham 19 Dec. 1861. _bur._ in family
vault at Stanton Harcourt 27 Dec. _Law Times xxxvii_, 122, 154
(1861).

NOTE.—By royal license dated 15 January 1831 the Archbishop of
York and his issue took name of Harcourt, but in April 1840 G.
G. Harcourt sent a letter to the _Times_ stating that his name
was G. H. Vernon.

HARCOURT, GRANVILLE (_6 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt_). _b._ Rose
castle, Cumberland 26 July 1792; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student
1812–14; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816; barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; M.P.
for Aldborough, Yorkshire 1815–20; contested Retford 1830; M.P.
for Retford 1831–47; chancellor of province of York to death. _d._
Grove hall, Retford 8 Dec. 1879.

HARCOURT, REV. LEVESON VENABLES VERNON (_2 son of Most Rev. E. V.
Harcourt_). _b._ Sudbury 1788; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student
1806–13; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; R. of Beckenham, Kent 1835–51;
chancellor of York cath. 30 May 1827 to death; author of _The
Doctrine of the deluge 2 vols._ 1838; _A remonstrance to the
bishop of Exeter on his letter to Archbishop of Canterbury_ 1850;
_Lectures on the four gospels 3 vols._ 1851; _On connexion of
chemistry with agriculture_ 1855. _d._ 29 Portland place, London
26 July 1860.

HARCOURT, OCTAVIUS HENRY CYRIL VERNON (_8 son of Most Rev. E. V.
Harcourt_). _b._ Rose castle, Cumberland 25 Dec. 1793; entered
R.N. Aug. 1806; served in Egypt 1807, on coast of Spain 1809, in
West Indies 1824–7; captain 7 Aug. 1827; surveyed coast of Central
America and California 1834–6; V.A. on h.p. 4 June 1861; sheriff
of Yorkshire 1848; built and endowed Healey ch. Yorkshire 1849.
_d._ Swinton park, Yorkshire 14 Aug. 1863. _Leeds Mercury 17 Aug.
1863 p._ 3.

HARCOURT, REV. WILLIAM VENABLES VERNON (_4 son of Most Rev. E. V.
Harcourt_). _b._ Sudbury, June 1789; served in R.N. on West India
station 5 years; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1807–15; B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814; V. of Bishopsthorpe, Yorks. 1814–24; R. of Etton,
Yorks. 1816; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorks. 1816–8; preb. of North
Newbald, York 6 Aug. 1821 to death; R. of Whildrake 1824–33; R. of
Bolton Percy 1837–65; president Yorkshire Philos. soc. 1822;
F.G.S. 1823; F.R.S. 1824; founder and general sec. of British
Assoc. 1831, president 1839; founder of Yorkshire sch. for the
blind and Castle Howard reformatory; studied the action of heat on
inorganic bodies; author of _Symmetrical psalmody or portions of
psalms translated into metrical stanzas_ 1855; _What is truth? A
poetical dialogue_ 1869; _Sermons_ 1873. _d._ Nuneham near Oxford
1 April 1871. _Quarterly Journal of geol. soc. xxviii_, 40 (1872).

HARDEN, JOHN WILLIAM (_youngest son of John Harden of Brathay hall,
Westmoreland, d. 1847_). _b._ 11 Dec. 1809; ed. at gr. sch.
Manchester and Univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1835; comr.
of bankruptcy in Cheshire and North Wales; a revising barrister on
northern circuit 1841; judge of county courts, circuit No. 7
(Lancashire) 1847 to death; author of _Scripture proofs on leading
doctrines of the Gospel, By J. W. H._ 1873; _Questions on the
leading doctrines of the Gospel_ 1873. _d._ Bournemouth 16 April
1875.

HARDIMAN, JAMES. _b._ Westport, co. Mayo Feb. 1782; admitted
solicitor 1814; sub-commissioner of the Irish records 1830; member
of R. Irish Academy and of Iberno-Celtic soc.; librarian to
Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; published _The history of
the town and county of Galway_ 1820; _Irish minstrelsy, or bardic
remains of Ireland 2 vols._ 1831; edited R. O’Flaherty’s _West
Connaught_ 1846. _d._ Galway 13 Nov. 1855.

HARDING, ANNE RAIKES. _b._ 1780; author of _Correction: a novel 3
vols._ 1818; _Decision: a tale 3 vols._ 1819; _The Refugees: an
Irish tale 3 vols._ 1822; _Realities 4 vols._ 1825; _Dissipation:
a novel 4 vols._ 1827; _Experience: a tale for all ages 4 vols._
1828; _An epitome of universal history_ 1848; _Sketches of the
Highlands_ 18—and other works all published anonymously;
contributed to reviews and periodicals. (_m._ Thomas Harding of
Bristol, merchant). _d._ at residence of her son in law Rev.
William Kynaston Groves, Boulogne 27 April 1858. _G.M. June 1858
p._ 684.

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.

HARE, REV. ROBERT HENRY (_5 son of Rev. Edward Hare, d. 1818_). _b._
Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 3 March 1816; ed. at Woodhouse grove
sch. 1824; apprentice to Christopher and Dove, leather factors,
Darlington; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Hornsea 1838–40 and at
14 other places in north of England 1840–72. _d._ Chapel house,
the Square, Dunstable 11 Oct. 1873. _J. M. Hare’s Ministry of R.
H. Hare_ (1874), _portrait_.

HARENC, CHARLES JOSEPH (_2 son of Benjamin Harenc of Foots Cray,
Kent_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 8 Dec. 1829 aged 18, B.A. 1833;
barrister I.T. 9 June 1837; played his first cricket match at
Lord’s 2 Aug. 1826; one of the best bowlers in England 1830–34;
played as late as 1849. _d._ Costin st. Bedford 14 Dec. 1877.
_Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, i_, 547 (1862).

HAREWOOD, HENRY LASCELLES, 3 Earl of. _b._ 11 June 1797; ensign 1
foot guards 1814, sold out 1831; lieut. Yorkshire hussar yeomanry
1820, major 1839–43; col. of West Yorkshire hussars; M.P. for
Northallerton, Yorkshire 1826–31; styled Viscount Lascelles
1839–41; succeeded as 3 Earl 24 Nov. 1841; lord lieut. of West
Riding, Yorkshire 21 Jany. 1846 to death. _d._ Harewood house near
Leeds 22 Feb. 1857 having fractured his skull while following the
Bramham Moor foxhounds 24 Jany. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_
(1865) 463–6.

HARFORD, JOHN SCANDRETT (_1 son of John Scandrett Harford of Blaise
castle, Gloucs., banker, d. 1815_). _b._ Bristol 8 Oct. 1785; ed.
at Christ’s coll. Cam.; D.C.L. of Ox. univ. 1822; the hero of
Hannah More’s _Cœlebs in search of a wife_ 1809; made a collection
of pictures at Blaise castle 1815–7; gave the site of the castle
of Lampeter for St. David’s coll. 1822 of which he became visitor
1827; F.R.S. 29 May 1823; sheriff of Cardigan 1824; M.P. Cardigan
9 July 1841 to 18 April 1842; author of _The life of T. Burgess,
bishop of Salisbury_ 1840; _Life of Michael Angelo Buonarotti 2
vols._ 1857, _2 ed._ 1858 and 8 other books. _d._ Blaise castle 16
April 1866. _Christian Observer, July 1866 pp._ 489–98; _Waagen’s
Treasures of art, iii_, 187–95 (1854).

HARFORD, SUMMERS. _b._ 1795; M.P. for Lewes 30 June 1841, unseated
21 March 1842; contested Brighton 5 May 1842; sheriff of Monmouth
1841. _d._ Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire 2 June 1873.

HARGOOD, WILLIAM. _b._ 22 June 1801; entered navy 19 June 1813,
captain 10 Jany. 1837, admiral on h.p. 15 Jany. 1869. _d._ North
lodge, Worthing 8 July 1888.

HARGRAVE, JOHN FLETCHER (_son of Mr. Hargrave of Greenwich,
ironmonger, d. 1851_). _b._ Greenwich 28 Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s
coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; barrister
L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; landed at Sydney, N.S.W. Feb. 1857, a district
court judge 1 year, solicitor general Feb. to Oct. 1859, Nov. 1859
to April 1860, Aug. to Oct. 1863 and Feb. to June 1865; M.P. for
East Camden 1859, for Wollongong 1859; attorney general 2 April
1860 to 31 July 1863; mem. of legislative council Oct. 1859; a
puisne judge of supreme court 1865; primary judge in equity; first
judge of divorce court 1873–84; edited vol. i. of 21st ed. of
_Blackstone’s Commentaries_ 1843; many of his law lectures at
Sydney Univ. were printed; author of _Treatise on the Thellusson
act, 39 & 40 Geo. iii, c. 98, with practical observations upon
trusts for accumulation_ 1842. _d._ Rushcutters’ Bay N.S.W. 23
Feb. 1885.

HARGRAVE, WILLIAM, _b._ Cork 1795; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1819, fellow
1825, president; M.B. Dublin univ. 1823; surgeon in sch. of
college of surgeons, president; surgeon city of Dublin hospital;
member of general medical council 10 May 1861, resigned 16 Feb.
1874; contributed to _Dublin Medical Press_ and _Dublin Quarterly
Journal_; author of _A system of operative surgery, Dublin_ 1831.
_d._ 56 Upper Mount st., Merrion sq. east, Dublin 24 Nov. 1874.
_Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p._ 649.

HARGREAVE, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ Wortley near Leeds, Dec. 1820; ed. at
Univ. coll. London; L.L.B. London; professor of jurisprudence
Univ. coll. 1843–9; barrister I.T. 7 June 1844, bencher 1851,
master of the library 1865 and reader 1866; a commissioner of
Incumbered estates court, Ireland 1849–58; judge of Landed estate
court 1858 to death; Q.C. 1852; F.R.S. 18 April 1844, gold
medallist; LLD. of Dublin univ. 1852; author of _An essay on the
resolution of algebraic equations, Dublin_ 1866; wrote many
mathematical papers in _Philos. Trans._ and other scientific
periodicals. _d._ Bray near Dublin 23 April 1866. _Law Mag. and
Law Rev., Aug. 1866 pp._ 220–35.

HARGREAVES, HENRY. _b._ Manchester, Oct. 1807; with Butterworth and
Brooks, calico printers, Manchester, and then a traveller for the
firm to 1841; backed Alice Hawthorne for the Chester cup 1841, and
commenced a racing career which lasted to 1870; won £40,000 on
Ellington in Derby of 1856; purchased John Massey Stanley’s stud
1856. _d._ 6 Cleveland sq. Bayswater, London 3 July 1887. _Baily’s
Mag., Aug. 1887 pp._ 60–62; _Sporting Review_, _xxxix_, 298–9
(1858).

HARGROVE, WILLIAM (_youngest son of Ely Hargrove of Knaresborough
1741–1818_). _b._ Knaresborough 16 Oct. 1788; bought the _York
Herald_ 1813, edited it 13 July 1813 to 1848; member of common
council York 1818, sheriff 1831; first sec. and treasurer
Mechanics’ Institute, York 1827; collected Roman and mediæval
remains excavated in and near York, gave them to Yorkshire Philos.
Soc. about 1852; author of _History and description of the ancient
city of York 2 vols., York_ 1818; _The York poetical miscellany_
1835; author with J. Hargrove of _A new guide to the city of York_
1842. _d._ St. Mary’s, Bootham, York 24 Aug. 1862. _Effective,
Advertiser 1 May 1886 pp._ 25–31, _portrait_.

HARINGTON, REV. EDWARD CHARLES (_only son of Rev. Edward Harington
of the Isle of Man_, _d._ 1811). _b._ Clifton 1804; ed. at
Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833; V. of St. David’s,
Exeter 1832–47; preb. of Ex. cath. 1845, chancellor 15 July 1847
to July 1880, canon residentiary 1856 to July 1880, spent £15,000
on repairing the cath.; a founder of Exeter diocesan training
college 1840 where he taught for many years; always attended
turning of first sod of every new railway in England; author of
_Brief notes on the church of Scotland_ 1843; _The reconsecration
and reconciliation of churches_ 1850 and 12 other books. _d._ The
Close, Exeter 14 July 1881.

HARINGTON, SIR HENRY BYNG (_eld. son of Henry Hawes Harington of
Madras_). _b._ 1808; entered Bengal army 1824, transferred to
Bengal civil service 1828; additional member of council, member of
supreme council 13 June 1862; lieut. governor of North Western
provinces of India 1863 to 1865; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. _d._ 70
Oxford terrace, London 7 Oct. 1871.

HARINGTON, REV. RICHARD (_2 son of Sir John Edward Harington, 8
bart., of Ridlington, co. Rutland 1760–1831_). _b._ 26 April 1800;
ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1842;
fellow of Brasenose coll. 1821–33, principal 1842 to death; R. of
Olde, Northamptonshire 1833–42. _d._ High st. Oxford 13 Dec. 1853.
_bur._ in Brasn. coll. chapel 20 Dec. _G.M. xli_, 206–207 (1854);
_Correspondence between Dean of Manchester and the principal of
Brasenose_ 1846.

HARKER, DANIEL RICHARD. Toast master, city of London; retired a few
years before his death; _d._ Osborn villas, Westgreen road,
Tottenham, Nov. 1874 aged 70.

HARKNESS, ROBERT. _b._ Ormskirk, Lancs. 28 July 1816; ed. at Edin.
univ. 1833–4; professor of geology Queen’s coll. Cork 1853 to
death; F.G.S.; F.R.S. Edin. 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; did much to
elucidate geology of Scotland; a writer of upwards of 60
scientific papers; author with H. A. Nicholson of _On the Coniston
group_ 1868. _d._ Imperial hotel, Dublin 4 Oct. 1878. _Quarterly
journal of geol. soc. xxxv_, 41–4 (1879); _Geol. Mag._ (1878) 528,
574–76, _portrait_; _Proc. of royal soc. of Edin. x_, 31–3 (1880);
_I.L.N. lxxiii_, 400 (1878), _portrait_.

HARLAND, AURELIUS (_son of Dr. Harland, d. 1866_). Ed. at Edin.
univ., M.D. 1844; at Hong Kong 1844 to death; surgeon of Seaman’s
hospital; acquired Chinese and studied Chinese medicine and
physiology; sent papers to R. Asiatic soc. _d._ Hong Kong 12 Sep.
1858, public monument in the Happy Valley. _H. Hance’s Memoir of
A. Harland_ (1858); _S. Smiles’ Men of Invention_ (1884) 288–92.

HARLAND, REV. EDWARD (_2 son of Christopher Harland of Ashbourne,
Derbyshire_). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 16 June 1827 aged 17;
B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; C. of Sandon, Staffs. 1836–51; V. of
Colwich, Staffs. 1851 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1873 to
death; author of _Index Sermonum_ 1858; _A church psalter and
hymnal_ 1865, _Supplement_ 1863. _d._ Rushton hall, Stafford 8
June 1890.

HARLAND, EDWARD JAMES (_brother of Aurelius Harland_). _b._
Scarborough, May 1831; pupil of R. Stephenson, Newcastle upon Tyne
1846–51; journeyman with J. and G. Thomson, Glasgow 1851; manager
for Thomas Toward ship builder near Newcastle 1853; manager for R.
Hickson & Co. Belfast 1854, purchased the business 1857, took in
Mr. Woolff as a partner 1862; made improvements in length,
flatness of bottom and squareness of bilge in build of ships,
which became known as Belfast bottoms; built for the government
the Lynx and Algerine gun vessels and the Hecla store and torpedo
ship 3360 tons; built ships for all the great ocean lines. _d._
1866. _S. Smiles’ Men of Invention_ (1884) 288–323.

HARLAND, JOHN (_1 son of John Harland, clock maker_). _b._ Hull 27
May 1806; compositor 1821–8; letter press printer; taught himself
shorthand and made improvements in the system; chief of reporting
staff of _Manchester Guardian_ 1830–60; F.S.A.; an early member of
the Rosicrucians; edited 14 volumes for Chetham soc.; author of
_Historical account of Salley alley, Yorkshire_ 1853; _Ballads and
songs of Lancashire_ 1865, _2 ed._ 1875; _Lancashire Lyrics_ 1866;
and with T. T. Wilkinson of _Lancashire folk lore_ 1867. _d._
Brideoak st. Cheetham hill road, Manchester 23 April 1868. _bur._
Rusholme road cemetery. _Sketches of Hull authors, By R. W.
Corlass_ (1879) 35–9; _J. Harland and T. T. Wilkinson’s Lancashire
legends_ (1873) _memoir pp. xv-xxxv, with portrait_.

HARLAND, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Newton near Pickering, Yorkshire 1801;
Primitive Methodist minister Hull 1828; sec. to committee of
privileges, London 1857; edited _Primitive Methodist Mag._ and was
editor superintendent of all works issued by the connexion; author
of _The Primitive Methodist revival hymn book_ 1861; _The
Christian Cabinet illustrated almanack_ (1860) _p._ 37; probably
dead.

HARLE, WILLIAM LOCKEY (_son of Mr. Harle of Stockton_). _b._ York
1811; solicitor at Newcastle upon Tyne 1833 to death, in London
1848 to death; deputy recorder of Newcastle, member of the town
council 1841–53 and 1858 to death, sheriff 1864, alderman 1868 to
death; author of _A Career in the Commons_ 1850, in which he set
forth a complete programme of policy for liberals; _An argument on
the inutility of the distinction between barrister and attorney_
1851. _d._ 30 Victoria sq. Newcastle 18 Jany. 1878. _Monthly
chronicle of north country lore, Feb._ 1888 _p._ 49, _portrait_;
_Sketch of that distinguished author, editor, lawyer and municipal
patriot, Mr. W. L. H., edited by himself_ (1854).

HARLECH, JOHN RALPH ORMSBY-GORE, 1 Baron (_eld. child of Wm.
Ormsby-Gore, M.P. of Porkington, co. Salop 1779–1860_). _b._ 3
June 1816; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1865;
student of L.I. 1837; M.P. for Carnarvonshire 1837–41, for North
Shropshire 1859–75; created Baron Harlech of Harlech, co.
Merioneth 14 Jany. 1876. _d._ Boreham house near Chelmsford 15
June 1876. _Graphic, xiii_, 134, 138 (1876), _portrait_.

HARLEY, EDWARD (_eld. son of Edward Harley of Bristol, iron
merchant_). _b._ Bristol 19 June 1808; ed. at Shrewsbury;
solicitor at Bristol 1831 to death; deputy registrar of Bristol
Court of Conscience (a borough court of record since time of Wm.
iii.) 1 Jany. 1837, registrar Dec. 1843 to 1847 when the court was
abolished by County Courts’ Act 1846; joint registrar of Bristol
county court 1847 to death; joint district registrar of the High
Court 1875 to death. _d._ Condover Grange near Shrewsbury 25 Oct.
1888.

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