HARDWICK, CHARLES: English church his torian, archdeacon of Ely; b. at Slingsby (15 m. n.n.e. of York), Yorkshire, Sept. 22, 1821; d. near Bagnlres-de-Luchon (70 m. s.w. of Toulouse), France, Aug. 18, 1859. He attended St. John's College and Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, and received a fellowship in Catherine's Hall in 1845. In 1850 he was select preacher at Cambridge, and in Mar., 1851, became preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. From March to September, 1853, he was professor of divinity in Queen's College, Bir mingham. In 1855 he was appointed lecturer in divinity at King's College, Cambridge, and Christian advocate in the university. He was elected a member of the newly established council of the senate in 1856, and reelected in 1858. He became archdeacon of Ely in 1859, shortly before his death by a fall in the Pyrenees. He edited a number of books for the Cambridge University Press and the Percy Society, and wrote several scholarly and val uable works, viz.: A History of the Articles of Relig ion (Cambridge, 1851; 2d ed., largely rewritten, 1859); A History of the Christian Church, Middle Age (Cambridge, 1853; 3d ed. by W. Stubbs, 1872); A History of the Christian Church during the Reformation (1856), and the unfinished treatise, Christ and Other Masters: an Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the An cient World (4 parts, Cambridge, 1855-59; 2d ed., with Memoir- by F. Procter, 2 vols., London, 1863).
Bibliography: Besides the Memoir by Procter, ut sup., consult DNB, xxiv. 347-348.
HARDY, EDWARD JOHN: Church of England; b. at Armagh, Ireland, May 7, 1849. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1871), and was ordered deacon in 1874, and ordained priest in the following year. He was curate of St. Sa viour's, Brockley Hill, Kent, in 1874-77, and in the latter year became an army chaplain, being sta tioned at Cork (1877-79), Bermuda (1879--82), Dover (1882), Gosport (1882-86), Netley (1886-88), Malta (1888-90), Plymouth( 1890-97), Dublin (1897 1901), Hongkong (1901-05), and Cairo (since 1905). In 1898-99 he was Donnellan Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin. In theology he is an Evangelical High-churchman with liberal leanings. He has
written How to be Happy though Married (London, 1885); Manners Makyth Man (1887 ); The Five Talents of Woman (1888); The Business of Life (1892); Sunny Days of Youth (1893); In the Footprints of St. Paul (1895); Doubt and Faith (Donnellan lectures; 1899); Concerning Marriage (1901); Love, Courtship, and Marriage (1901); Pen Portraits of Our Soldiers (1902); and John Chinaman at Home (1905).
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