Charles Hardy
Sir Charles Hardy | |
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Born | c. 1714 |
Died | 18 May 1780 |
Allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Years of service | 1731–1780 |
Rank | Admiral of the White |
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Sir Charles Hardy (c. 1714 – 18 May 1780) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1764 and 1780. He served as colonial governor of New York from 1755 to 1757.
Early career
Born at Portsmouth, the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, Charles Hardy joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer in 1731.[1]
He became a
He was
Seven Years' War
In 1757, under the command of Vice Admiral
That autumn, he and
Hardy served as the governor of Greenwich Hospital from 1771 to 1780. In 1778, he was made Admiral of the White. In 1779 he became Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, remaining in that post until his death in May 1780.[1]
Member of Parliament
Hardy sat as
Personal life
In 1749 he married Mary Tate, however she died the next year without issue and left her home Delapré Abbey to Hardy which he sold in 1764[4] to Edward Bouverie for £22,000. Following his first wife's death, he married Catharine Stanyan,[1] the daughter of Temple Stanyan. Through Catherine, he inherited Temple Stanyan's estate at Rawlins, Oxfordshire.
The couple had three sons and two daughters. Sir Charles Hardy died at Spithead. He bequeathed £3000 to each of the sons and £4000 to each daughter,[1] as well as leaving his estate to his eldest son Temple Hardy. By Catharine's death in 1801, only Temple survived of the three sons. Hardy's brother Josiah was a merchant and the Governor of New Jersey from 1761 to 1763.
See also
- Governors of Newfoundland
- List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12282. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- JSTOR 27566994.
- ^ "HARDY, Sir Charles (c.1714-80)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ Frances Maria Peacock: A BUILDING HISTORY OF DELAPRE ABBEY 2017
- Gwyn, Julian (1979). "Hardy, Sir Charles". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- Laughton, John Knox (1890). . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 352–353.