A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hardwick, John
HARDWICK. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 31.)
John Hardwick died 8 March, 1846. This officer entered the Navy, 23 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Isis 50, Capt. John Laugharne, in which ship, and the Antelope 50, bearing each the flag of Vice- Admiral John Holloway, he served at Newfoundland, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until May, 1810. During the next two years we find him continuously employed with Capt. John Allen, in the Franchise 36, Rodney 74, and Perlen 38, on the Greenland, Mediterranean, and Channel stations. He was then transferred to the Magnificent 74, Capt. Willoughby Thos. Lake, and in the course of the following summer was very actively employed in cooperation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, where he witnessed the reduction of Castro, Puerta Galletta, Quetaria, St. Ano, &c. He was promoted, after making a voyage in the same ship to the West Indies, to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 8 March, 1815; but he did not again go afloat.