Joseph Hardcastle
Joseph Hardcastle may refer to: * Joseph Hardcastle (1752–1819), English merchant and a founder of The Missionary Society * Joseph Hardcastle (politician), British Liberal Party MP * Joseph Alfred Hardcastle, FRAS (1868–1917) - grandson of Joseph Hardcastle (politician) appointed Director of Armagh Observatory Armagh Observatory is an astronomical research institute in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Around 25 astronomers are based at the observatory, studying stellar astrophysics, the Sun, Solar System astronomy and Earth's climate. In 2018, Armagh Obse ...

Joseph Hardcastle (1752–1819)
Joseph Hardcastle (1752–1819) was an English merchant. One of the founders of the Missionary Society, later the London Missionary Society, he devoted time and money to its affairs, becoming its first treasurer. Life Hardcastle was born in Leeds, where he lived until the age of 15, at which point he moved to London to join his uncle's business. He eventually became a merchant, still based in London. During his time in London he lived at Old Swan Stairs, before moving to Hatcham House in Deptford, then a rural Surrey village, in what is now the New Cross Gate area of Lewisham. Thomas Clarkson the slavery abolitionist was a frequent guest at Hatcham House. Here Clarkson wrote much of his ''History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade'', and met his future wife, a niece of Mrs Hardcastle. Joseph Hardcastle was especially active in arranging missionary expeditions to Africa, and created schemes through which missionary work could be self-funding by the sale artefacts brought back ...
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Joseph Hardcastle (politician)
Joseph Alfred Hardcastle (1815–1899) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1847 and 1885. Life Hardcastle was born at Clapham, London, the son of Alfred Hardcastle of Hatcham House, New Cross (then in Surrey) and the grandson of Joseph Hardcastle. He was educated at Mill Hill School and the Grammar School at Bury St Edmunds. He then studied at King's College, London and, after matriculating at Wadham College, Oxford, at Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained a scholarship in 1836. He was also admitted at the Inner Temple on 2 December 1837 and called to the Bar on 11 June 1841. He was a Cambridge Apostle. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey and a Justice of the Peace for Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. Hardcastle was elected at the 1847 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester, but was defeated in 1852. At the 1857 general election he was elected for Bury St Edmunds, and held the seat until his defeat ...
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