left to navigate her, Capt. Harding was confirmed, 23 July, 1831, into the Jaseur 18, in which sloop he returned to the Cape. He was transferred, 16 Sept. following, to the Second-Captaincy of the Warspite 76, bearing .the flag in South America of Sir Thos. Baker, with whom he remained until paid off in March, 1833. He was lastly, from 21 Jan. 1837 until Aug. 1839, employed in command of the Pelorus 16, on the East India station; during which period we find his services eliciting the thanks of the Governor-General in Council, also of Sir Jas. Stirling, the Governor of Western Australia, and of Sir John Franklin, the Governor of Van Diemen’s Land. At the expiration of the above period, nine months whereof he had acted as Senior naval officer in the Australian colonies, Capt. Harding’s health obliged him to seek a temporary cessation from the active duties of his profession. He acquired his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.
Capt. Harding married, 23 Oct. 1833, Davidona Eleanor, daughter of Gen. Chas. Dallas, Governor of St. Helena, by whom he has issue one son and one daughter.
HARDING. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 31; h-p., 10.)
George Harding entered the Navy, 5 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Isis 50, Capt. John Laugharne, successive flag-ship at Newfoundland of Vice- Admirals Sir Erasmus Gower and John Holloway. He afterwards, on removing to the Stork 18, Capt. Geo. Le Geyt, contributed, as Midshipman, to the capture and destruction, 12 and 13 Dec. 1808, of Le Cygne corvette of 18 guns, and two schooners, near St. Pierre, Martinique. Quitting the latter vessel in Jan. 1811, he next, between that period and March, 1816, served, on the North Sea, Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope, Channel, and Leith stations, in the Edinburgh 74, Euryalus, Thames, Laurel, and Stag frigates, Swiftsure 74, and Driver 16, Capts. Robt. Rolles, Rowland Mainwaring, Jeremiah Coghlan, John Strutt Peyton, Hon. Granville Proby, Phipps Hornby, Wm. Henry Webley, and John Ross. While attached with Capt. Proby to the Thames, Mr. Harding served on shore with the patriots at the siege of Tarragona in 1813. He was presented, on leaving the Driver, with a commission dated back to 20 March, 1815; and, since 28 Feb. 1826, has been employed in the Coast Guard.
HARDING. (Commander, 1846. f-p., 23; h-p., 19.)
John Harding entered the Navy, 19 Dec. 1805, on board the Foudroyant 80, Capt. John Chambers White, in which ship, until Nov. 1812, he continued, chiefly as Midshipman, to serve, on the Home, Lisbon, and Brazilian stations, under the successive flags of Admirals Sir John Borlase Warren, Albemarle Bertie, Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and Hon. Michael De Courcy. Returning then to England he joined the Daedalus 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, under whom, on eventually arriving in the East Indies, he was wrecked, off the island of Ceylon, 2 July, 1813. In consequence of that catastrophe he was received on board the Minden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, in which ship he remained until Sept. 1814, when he became Acting-Lieutenant of the Hecate 18, Capt. John Allen. Being confirmed, 11 Feb. 1815, into the Sphynx 10, Mr. Harding, during a continuance of a few months in that vessel, and prior to the arrival of the proper Captain, the Hon. Arthur Turnour, appears to have discharged the duties of sole commander. He was subsequently appointed – 7 Jan. 1824 and 5 March, 1825 to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies 74, and Hyperion 42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 21 April, 1832, to the Royal Charlotte yacht, Capt. Edw. Galwey, lying at Dublin – 29 Sept. 1832 and 5 Sept. 1835, to the San Josef 110, and Royal Adelaide 104, flag-ships at Plymouth of Sir Manley Dixon and Sir Wm. Hargood – 14 Dec. 1842 (after seven years of half-pay), to the command of the Columbia steam surveying-vessel, employed, until the close of 1844, on the North American station – 4 April, 1845, to the Cyclops steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, on the S.E. coast of America – and, 1 Dec. 1845, to the Crocodile 8, Capt. Gower Lowe. With the exception of the Columbia, Mr. Harding was attached as an Additional-Lieutenant to all the above ships, and was employed the whole time on surveying service. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay.
HARDMAN. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Henry Bowman Hardman passed his examination 1 June, 1839; and from the latter part of 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 30 Dec. 1845, was employed as Mate, on the Mediterranean and East India station, in the Formidable 84, Capts. Sir Chas. Sullivan and Geo. Fred. Rich, flagship latterly of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and Espiègle 12, Capt. Thos. Pickering Thompson. He has since been on half-pay.
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.
HARDWICKE, Earl of. (Captain, 1825. f-p., 15; h-p., 19.)
The Right Honourable Charles Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, born 2 April, 1799, is son of the late Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke,[1] K.C.B., M.P. (whose father and- grandfather were each Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), by his first wife, Elizabeth Weake, daughter of Jas. Rattray, Esq., of Atherstone; and nephew of the Right Hon. Chas. Philip Yorke, who filled the office of First Lord of the Admiralty from Nov. 1809 to March, 1812. One of his grand-uncles, the late Lord Dover, K.B., held high rank in the Army, and acted as Aide-de-Camp to H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Fontenoy; and another, James, died Bishop of Ely in 1808. His Lordship succeeded to his titles on the demise of his uncle Philip Yorke, third Earl of Hardwicke, formerly Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 18 Nov. 1834.
- ↑ Sir J. S. Yorke was born 6 June, 1768. Entering the Navy 15 Feb. 1780, he acted as Aide-de-Camp to Sir George Rodney in the actions of 9 and 12 April, 1782; and he afterwards, between the period of his Post-promotion, 4 Feb. 1793, and of his advancement to Flag-rank, 31 July, 1810, commanded in succession the Circe 28, Stag 32, Jason 36, Canada 74, Prince George and Barfleur 98’s, and Christian VII. 80; in the second-named of which ships, the Stag, he captured 22 Aug. 1795, after a close and spirited action, the Dutch 86-gun frigate Alliance. In 1811 we find him commanding a squadron and escorting a large body of troops in transports to the Tagus for the reinforcement of Lord Wellington’s army. He had been awarded, in the preceding year, a seat at the Board of Admiralty, and he continued to hold it until April 1818. From 1790 until drowned, in consequence of the upsetting of a yacht in Stokes Bay 5 May, 1830, Sir J, S. Yorke, with the exception of an interval of two years in 1810-12, had the honour of being uninterrupted representative in Parliament for the towns of Reygate, St. Germans, Sandwich, and, again, for Reygate. He was nominated a K.C.B. in 1815, and died an Admiral of the Blue.
