Sir Edmund Stracey Hardinge, 4th Baronet (27 March 1833 – 8 April 1924) was the fourth of the Hardinge baronets and a

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er who played a single match for

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in 1861.Edmund Hardinge
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Early life

Hardinge was born at

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in 1833, the second son of

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Sir Charles Hardinge, 2nd Baronet, and Emily Bradford Callander. He was educated at

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, where he played cricket in the school XI, and at

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Cricket

Despite playing club cricket regularly and being rated in the 1907 ''History of Kent County Cricket'' as a "hard hitter", "fast bowler with a low delivery" and a "good fieldsman", Hardinge's only First XI match was for Kent against

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in 1861. He played club cricket for

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and Bluemantles and played some non-first-class matches for the

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amateur side. He was a member of the General Committee of Kent County Cricket Club between 1879 and 1881, his brother having been a vice-president of the club.

Family and later life

His elder brother Henry succeeded to the baronetcy in 1864. Following his brother's death in 1873, Hardinge inherited the family baronetcy and widespread property interests. He served as a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant in Kent. Throughout his adult life he lived at South Park in

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, at

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and in 1901 was living at

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. In 1877 he married Evelyn Stuart Maberly, daughter of Major General Evan Maberley, and the couple had four children, including one son Charles who became the 5th Baronet. His property interests were in Hertfordshire and at Ketton Hall in

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, where the

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had been bred a century earlier. Hardige died at

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in London in 1924. He was aged 91.Edmund Hardinge

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hardinge, Edmund 1833 births 1924 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Deputy Lieutenants of Kent People from Penshurst People from Chiddingstone