Charles Hardwick (22 September 1821 – 18 August 1859) was an English historian and a priest of the
Church of England
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who became the
Archdeacon of Ely
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The archdeaconry has existed, as the Archdeaconry of ...
.
Life
Hardwick was born in
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,
North Yorkshire
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, the son of Charles Hardwick, a joiner.
After receiving some instruction at Slingsby,
Malton, and
Sheffield
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, he acted for a short time as an usher at schools in
Thornton and Malton and as an assistant to the Revd Henry Barlow at
Shirland
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rectory in
Derbyshire
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.
In October 1840, Hardwick unsuccessfully competed for a
sizar
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ship at
St John's College, Cambridge
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. He became a pensioner and afterwards a minor scholar of
St Catharine's Hall and was the first
senior optime in January 1844. After being a tutor for the family of Sir Joseph Radcliffe in
Brussels
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, he was elected as a fellow of his college in 1845. He was ordained deacon in 1846 and priest in 1847, in which year also he proceeded M.A.
He was select preacher at Cambridge for 1850 and in March 1851 became preacher at the
Chapel Royal, Whitehall
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. From March to September 1853 he was a professor of divinity at
Queen's College, Birmingham
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(a predecessor college of
Birmingham University
, mottoeng = Through efforts to heights
, established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
). In 1855 he was appointed a lecturer in divinity at
King's College, Cambridge
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, and Christian advocate in the university. In 1856 he was elected a member of the newly established council of the senate and was re-elected in 1858. For some years he was the secretary of the university branch association of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
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It was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Part ...
and promoted the proposed Oxford and Cambridge mission to Central Africa.
In 1859 he became the Archdeacon of Ely and commenced his BD degree. On 18 August of that year he was killed by falling over a precipice in the
Pyrenees
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. A monument was erected on the spot. He was buried on 21 August in the cemetery at
Luchon.
Works
During 1846 he edited
Sir Roger Twysden
Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet (21 August 1597 – 27 June 1672), of Roydon Hall near East Peckham in Kent, was an English historian and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1640.
Life
Twysden was the son ...
's ''Historical Vindication of the Church of England'', and edited as a supplement
Francis Fullwood's ''Roma ruit'' in 1847. He next edited for the
Percy Society
The Percy Society was a British text publication society. It was founded in 1840 and collapsed in 1852.
The Society was a scholarly collective, aimed at publishing limited-edition books of rare poems and songs. The president was Lady Braybrooke, a ...
(vol. xxviii.) ''A Poem on the Times of Edward II'' (1849), and an ''Anglo-Saxon Passion of St. George'', with a translation (1850).
He was editor-in-chief of the ''Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge'', contributing descriptions of Early English literature. The first three volumes appeared in 1856, 1857 and 1858 respectively. In 1849 he read before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society ''An Historical Inquiry touching Saint Catherine of Alexandria'' (printed with a ''Semi-Saxon Legend'' in vol. xv. of the society's quarto series). In 1850 he helped to edit the ''Book of Homilies'' for the university press, under the supervision of
George Elwes Corrie, who had been his tutor.
His ''History of the Articles of Religion'' first appeared in 1851, and a second edition, mostly rewritten, in 1859. In 1853 he printed ''Twenty Sermons for Town Congregations'', a selection from his Whitehall sermons, and ''A History of the Christian Church, Middle Age'', a third edition of which by
William Stubbs
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was issued in 1872. In his role as Christian advocate he published ''Christ and other Masters: an historical inquiry into some of the chief parallelisms and contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the ancient world'', 4 pts. 1855–9; 2nd edit., with a memoir of the author by
Francis Procter, 2 vols. 1863.
Early in 1856 he published the second volume of his ''History of the Christian Church'', embracing the Reformation period. For the university press he completed in 1858 an edition of the Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions of St. Matthew's Gospel, commenced by
John Mitchell Kemble
John Mitchell Kemble (2 April 1807 – 26 March 1857), English scholar and historian, was the eldest son of Charles Kemble the actor and Maria Theresa Kemble. He is known for his major contribution to the history of the Anglo-Saxons and philology ...
; and edited for the
Master of the Rolls
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the Latin ''History of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury'', preserved in the library of
Trinity Hall.
References
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1821 births
1859 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
Archdeacons of Ely
Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
19th-century English historians
Clergy from Yorkshire
Academics of the University of Birmingham
People from Ryedale (district)