Hardcastle may refer to:
*a family, the members of which are principal characters in Oliver Goldsmith's play ''
She Stoops to Conquer
''She Stoops to Conquer'' is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th ...
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Bill Hardcastle
William Robert Hardcastle (30 August 1874 – 11 July 1944) born in Wellington, New Zealand was a pioneer New Zealand and Australian rugby union player and an Australian rugby league footballer. He represented both countries in union and Austra ...
(1874–1944), New Zealand rugby player
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Diana Hardcastle
Diana Hardcastle Wilkinson is an English actress who has appeared largely in television roles.
Career
Hardcastle has appeared in episodes of ''Midsomer Murders'', '' Inspector Lynley'' and ''Taggart''. She played recurring roles in the series '' ...
, British actress
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Douglas Hardcastle
Douglas Scott Hardcastle (1886 – 9 May 1915) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside left in the Football League for Derby County.
Personal life
Hardcastle worked as a stove grate patternmaker. He served as an appo ...
(1886–1915), English footballer
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Edgar Hardcastle
Edgar Richard "Hardy" Hardcastle (1899 – June 1995) was a theoretician of Marxist economics.
The son of a founder member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, Hardcastle went to prison as a socialist conscientious objector in the First World ...
(1900–1995), theorist of Marxist economics
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Edward Hardcastle
Edward Hardcastle (1826 – 1 November 1905) was a British businessman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons between 1874 and 1892.
Hardcastle was the second ...
(1826–1905), British businessman and Conservative politician
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Frances Hardcastle
Frances Hardcastle (13 August 1866 – 26 December 1941) was an English mathematician, in 1894 one of the founding members of the American Mathematical Society. Her work included contributions to the theory of point groups.
Biography
Born in ...
(1866–1941), English mathematician
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Frank Hardcastle (1844–1908), British industrialist and Conservative politician
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Joseph Hardcastle (disambiguation) 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 Jos ...
, several people
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Leslie Hardcastle
Leslie Hardcastle Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 8 December 1926) was controller of the British Film Institute's (BFI) National Film Theatre (NFT) complex on London's South Bank from its early beginnings through to his retirement in the mi ...
(born 1926), controller of the British Film Institute
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Michael Hardcastle
Michael Hardcastle (6 February 1933 – 17 January 2019) was a British author of sports fiction for children. He has written more than one hundred and forty books on a range of sporting subjects but is probably best known for his books about A ...
(born 1933), British author of children's sports fiction
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Paul Hardcastle
Paul Louis Hardcastle (born 10 December 1957) is a British composer, musician, producer, songwriter, radio presenter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his song " 19", which went to number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1985.
Early l ...
(born 1957), composer
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Rick Hardcastle
Richard Lynn Hardcastle, known as Rick Hardcastle (born April 6, 1956), is an American businessman and rancher who is a Republican Party (United States), Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 68 in the easte ...
(born 1956), Texas politician
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Sally Hardcastle
Sally Turton Hardcastle (22 April 1945 – 10 November 2014) was a journalist and radio presenter, best known for presenting ''Woman's Hour'' and ''The World Tonight'' for the BBC.
She was born in London. Her father was William Hardcastle, a ...
(1945–2014), British journalist and radio presenter
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Sarah Hardcastle
Sarah Lucy Hardcastle (born 9 April 1969), also known by her married name Sarah Thomas, is a British former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics, world championships and European championships, and swam for England ...
(born 1969), English swimmer
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Sexton Hardcastle
Adam Joseph Copeland (born October 30, 1973), is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Edge. He is considered to be one of the greatest professional wr ...
(born 1973), pro wrestler; ring-name for Adam Copeland.
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Sonya Hardcastle
Sonya Hardcastle (born 16 April 1972) is a New Zealand former international netball player.
An attacking midcourt player, Hardcastle was first selected for the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns, in 1992. She sustained a back ...
(born 1972), New Zealand netballer
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William Hardcastle (broadcaster)
William Hardcastle (26 March 1918 – 10 November 1975) was a British journalist, editor of the ''Daily Mail'' and first presenter of the lunchtime news programme ''The World at One'' on BBC Radio.
Hardcastle was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, a ...
(1918–1975), British journalist and radio news presenter
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Hardcastle and McCormick
''Hardcastle and McCormick'' is an American action crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 18, 1983, through May 5, 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race ...
, a 1980s
television series
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