Frederick Hardman (1814–1874) was an English journalist and novelist.

Life

He was the son of

Joseph Hardman Joseph Hardman ( – 3 March 1870) was an English merchant and contributor to ''Blackwood's Magazine''. Life Hardman was born in Manchester, and was baptised in St Ann's Church on 23 July 1783. He became a merchant based in London, married Fra ...

, a London merchant from Manchester, who knew Samuel Taylor Coleridge and contributed to '' Blackwood's Magazine''. On leaving Whitehead's school at

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, he entered the counting-house of his maternal uncle Rougemont, a London merchant. In 1834 Hardman joined the

Auxiliary Legion The British Auxiliary Legion, also called the British Legion (''La Legión Británica'') or Westminster Legion, existed from 1835 to 1837. It was a British military force sent to Spain to support the Liberals and Queen Isabella II of Spain against ...

as lieutenant in the second Lancers. Severely wounded in one of the last engagements of the First Carlist War, he passed his convalescence at Toulouse. On returning to England he became a regular contributor to ''Blackwood''. A critical review of the

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which Hardman sent to '' The Times'' led to his being taken on about 1850 as a foreign correspondent. He was first at Madrid, and was in Constantinople during the Russo-Turkish war of 1853. In the Crimean War that followed, he wrote about the drunkenness in the British Army after the suspension of hostilities. Hardman went on to the

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, advised Cavour at Turin, and witnessed the campaigns in the Second Italian War of Independence,

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, and Second Schleswig War. He was at Tours and Bordeaux in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1, and was at Rome in 1871-3. Succeeding Laurence Oliphant as chief correspondent of ''The Times'' in Paris, Hardman died there on 6 November 1874.

Works

Hardman's first article (1840) was an account of an expedition with the guerilla chief

Martín Zurbano Martín Zurbano Baras (February 29, 1788 – January 21, 1845) was a Spanish military figure. A guerrilla leader, he is considered a "martyr to Spanish liberty".Thomas Hamilton's ''Annals of the Peninsular Campaign'', in 1852 he published ''Central America'', and in 1854 he translated Charles Weiss's ''History of the French Protestant Refugees''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hardman, Frederick 1814 births 1874 deaths English male journalists 19th-century English novelists 19th-century British journalists English male novelists 19th-century male writers British Auxiliary Legion personnel