William Hardman
Sir William Hardman, M.A., F.R.G.S. (13 August 1828 – 12 September 1890)[1], was an English barrister, journalist, and politician, who edited the Morning Post from 1872 until his death.
Career overview
Hardman, the son of William Bridge Hardman (1803-33) and Sarah Heyes, was born at his grandfather's house, Chamber Hall, in Bury, Lancashire.[2] He was educated at Bury Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1850. He was called to the Bar, at the Inner Temple, in 1852,[3] and for a time practiced as an equity draftsman and conveyancer. From 1865 until his death in 1890 he was Chairman of Surrey Quarter Sessions, and for this long public service he was knighted in 1885. Hardman was an intimate friend of George Meredith and the original of Blackburn Tuckham in Beauchamp's Career.[4]
He was married to Dame Mary Anne Hardman (1829-1917).[5] They had two daughters.
Works
- Explorations in Australia: the Journals of John McDouall Stuart (as editor, 1865)
Notes
References
- Ellis, S.M. (1923). A Mid-Victorian Pepys. The Letters and Memoirs of Sir William Hardman. London: Cecil Palmer.
- Ellis, S.M. (1930). The Hardman Papers. London: Constable & Co.
- Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-Bar. London: Hazell, Watson and Viney.
- Hammerton, J.A. (1909). George Meredith in Anecdote and Criticism. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
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