his career as a sailor. He became lieutenant in 1793, and in 1796, being then attached to the “Minerve” frigate, attracted the attention of Nelson by his gallant conduct. He continued to serve with distinction, and in 1798 was promoted to be captain of the “Vanguard,” Nelson’s flagship. In the “St George” he did valuable work before the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, and his association with Nelson was crowned by his appointment in 1803 to the “Victory” as flag-captain, in which capacity he was engaged at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805, witnessed Nelson’s will, and was in close attendance on him at his death. Hardy was created a baronet in 1806. He was then employed on the North American station, and later (1819), was made commodore and commander-in-chief on the South American station, where his able conduct came prominently into notice. In 1825 he became rear-admiral, and in December 1826 escorted the expeditionary force to Lisbon. In 1830 he was made first sea lord of the admiralty, being created G.C.B. in 1831. In 1834 he was appointed governor of Greenwich hospital, where thenceforward he devoted himself with conspicuous success to the charge of the naval pensioners; in 1837 he became vice-admiral. He died at Greenwich on the 20th of September 1839. In 1807 he had married Anne Louisa Emily, daughter of Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, under whom he had served on the North American station, and by her he had three daughters, the baronetcy becoming extinct.
See Marshall, Royal Naval Biography, ii. and iii.; Nicolas, Despatches of Lord Nelson; Broadley and Bartelot, The Three Dorset Captains at Trafalgar (1906), and Nelson’s Hardy, his Life, Letters and Friends (1909).
HARDYNG or HARDING, JOHN (1378–1465), English
chronicler, was born in the north, and as a boy entered the
service of Sir Henry Percy (Hotspur), with whom he was present
at the battle of Shrewsbury (1403). He then passed into the
service of Sir Robert Umfraville, under whom he was constable
of Warkworth Castle, and served in the campaign of Agincourt
in 1415 and in the sea-fight before Harfleur in 1416. In 1424
he was on a diplomatic mission at Rome, where at the instance
of Cardinal Beaufort he consulted the chronicle of Trogus
Pompeius. Umfraville, who died in 1436, had made Hardyng
constable of Kyme in Lincolnshire, where he probably lived till
his death about 1465. Hardyng was a man of antiquarian
knowledge, and under Henry V. was employed to investigate
the feudal relations of Scotland to the English crown. For this
purpose he visited Scotland, at much expense and hardship.
For his services he says that Henry V. promised him the manor
of Geddington in Northamptonshire. Many years after, in 1439,
he had a grant of £10 a year for similar services. In 1457 there
is a record of the delivery of documents relating to Scotland by
Hardyng to the earl of Shrewsbury, and his reward by a further
pension of £20. It is clear that Hardyng was well acquainted
with Scotland, and James I. is said to have offered him a bribe
to surrender his papers. But the documents, which are still
preserved in the Record Office, have been shown to be forgeries,
and were probably manufactured by Hardyng himself. Hardyng
spent many years on the composition of a rhyming chronicle
of England. His services under the Percies and Umfravilles
gave him opportunity to obtain much information of value for
15th century history. As literature the chronicle has no merit.
It was written and rewritten to suit his various patrons. The
original edition ending in 1436 had a Lancastrian bias and was
dedicated to Henry VI. Afterwards he prepared a version for
Richard, duke of York (d. 1460), and the chronicle in its final
form was presented to Edward IV. after his marriage to Elizabeth
Woodville in 1464.
The version of 1436 is preserved in Lansdowne MS. 204, and the best of the later versions in Harley MS. 661, both in the British Museum. Richard Grafton printed two editions in January 1543, which differ much from one another and from the now extant manuscripts. Stow, who was acquainted with a different version, censured Grafton on this point somewhat unjustly. Sir Henry Ellis published the longer version of Grafton with some additions from the Harley MS. in 1812.
See Ellis’ preface to Hardyng’s Chronicle, and Sir F. Palgrave’s Documents illustrating the History of Scotland (for an account of Hardyng’s forgeries). (C. L. K.)
HARE, AUGUSTUS JOHN CUTHBERT (1834–1903), English
writer and traveller, was born at Rome in 1834. He was educated
at Harrow school and at University College, Oxford. His
name is familiar as the author of a large number of guide-books
to the principal countries and towns of Europe, most of which
were written to order for John Murray. They were made up
partly of the author’s own notes of travel, partly of quotations
from others’ books taken with a frankness of appropriation that
disarmed criticism. He also wrote Memorials of a Quiet Life—that
of his aunt by whom he had been adopted when a baby
(1872), and a tediously long autobiography in six volumes,
The Story of My Life. He died at St Leonards-on-Sea on the
22nd of January 1903.
HARE, SIR JOHN (1844– ), English actor and manager,
was born in Yorkshire on the 16th of May 1844, and was educated
at Giggleswick school, Yorkshire. He made his first appearance
on the stage at Liverpool in 1864, coming to London in 1865,
and acting for ten years with the Bancrofts. He soon made his
mark, particularly in T. W. Robertson’s comedies, and in 1875
became manager of the Court theatre. But it was in association
with Mr and Mrs Kendal at the St James’s theatre from 1879
to 1888 that he established his popularity in London, in important
“character” and “men of the world” parts, the joint management
of Hare and Kendal making this theatre one of the chief
centres of the dramatic world for a decade. In 1889 he became
lessee and manager of the Garrick theatre, where (though he
was often out of the cast) he produced several important plays,
such as Pinero’s The Profligate and The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith,
and had a remarkable personal success in the chief part in
Sydney Grundy’s A Pair of Spectacles. In 1897 he took the
Globe theatre, where his acting in Pinero’s Gay Lord Quex was
another personal triumph. He became almost as well known in
the United States as in England, his last tour in America being
in 1900 and 1901. He was knighted in 1907.
HARE, JULIUS CHARLES (1795–1855), English theological
writer, was born at Valdagno, near Vicenza, in Italy, on the
13th of September 1795. He came to England with his parents
in 1799, but in 1804–1805 spent a winter with them at Weimar,
where he met Goethe and Schiller, and received a bias to German
literature which influenced his style and sentiments throughout
his whole career. On the death of his mother in 1806, Julius
was sent home to the Charterhouse in London, where he remained
till 1812, when he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. There
he became fellow in 1818, and after some time spent abroad he
began to read law in London in the following year. From 1822
to 1832 he was assistant-tutor at Trinity College. Turning his
attention from law to divinity, Hare took priest’s orders in 1826;
and, on the death of his uncle in 1832, he succeeded to the rich
family living of Hurstmonceaux in Sussex, where he accumulated
a library of some 12,000 volumes, especially rich in German
literature. Before taking up residence in his parish he once
more went abroad, and made in Rome the acquaintance of the
Chevalier Bunsen, who afterwards dedicated to him part of his
work, Hippolytus and his Age. In 1840 Hare was appointed
archdeacon of Lewes, and in the same year preached a course of
sermons at Cambridge (The Victory of Faith), followed in 1846
by a second, The Mission of the Comforter. Neither series when
published attained any great popularity. Archdeacon Hare
married in 1844 Esther, a sister of his friend Frederick Maurice.
In 1851 he was collated to a prebend in Chichester; and in 1853
he became one of Queen Victoria’s chaplains. He died on the
23rd of January 1855.
Julius Hare belonged to what has been called the “Broad Church party,” though some of his opinions approach very closely to those of the Evangelical Arminian school, while others again seem vague and undecided. He was one of the first of his countrymen to recognize and come under the influence of German thought and speculation, and, amidst an exaggerated alarm of German heresy, did much to vindicate the authority of the sounder German critics. His writings, which are chiefly theological and controversial, are largely formed of charges to his clergy, and sermons on different topics; but, though valuable and full of thought, they lose some of their force by the cumbrous German structure of the sentences, and by certain orthographical peculiarities in which the author
