Edward Hardcastle (priest)

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Edward Hardcastle, Archdeacon of Canterbury

Edward Hoare Hardcastle (6 March 1862 – 20 May 1945) was an Anglican clergyman in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century.[1][2]

Son of Conservative politician Edward Hardcastle and his wife Priscilla Hoare, Harcastle was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1887.[2][3][4][5] After a curacy at St George’s Ramsgate[6] he was Vicar of Weston, Bath. From 1901 to 1904 he was Rector of St Martin's Church, Canterbury and was subsequently Vicar of Maidstone.[2][7][8] After being appointed an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1915, in 1924 he was appointed Archdeacon of Canterbury, a post he held until 1939 when he retired.[2][3]

Hardcastle was a keen sportsman who played in two first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1883 and 1884. After taking three wickets in the first innings of his first match, he was unsuccessful as a bowler and scored only 12 runs in first-class cricket.[3][9] He had played cricket at school and in the freshman's match at Cambridge, and played for a number of other teams in non-first-class matches, including MCC, the Gentlemen of Kent, Worcestershire, Free Foresters and Band of Brothers as a left-arm fast bowler.[3][10][11] He served on the General Committee at Kent between 1939 and 1945.[3]

Hardcastle's first wife, Harriet Crompton, died in 1892, a year after their marriage. He later married the Hon Alice Goschen, second daughter of the 1st Viscount Goschen in 1900. The couple had five children.[3][12][13]

He died at Brighton in 1945 aged 83.[10] His daughter, Monica Alice Hardcastle, was assistant advisor in religious education for the Diocese of Chichester from 1931 to 1948 and then Principal of , Blackheath until her retirement in 1963.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d The Ven EH Hardcastle, Obituary, The Times, Issue 50148, 22 May 1945, p.7, col C. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 26 August 2020.)
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Carlaw D Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914, p.172. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 26 August 2020.)
  4. ^ "Hardcastle, Edward Hoare (HRDL880EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory, 1889. London: Hamilton & Co.
  6. ^ "St George the Martyr Church, Ramsgate". St Georges Church, Ramsgate.
  7. ^ St. Martin's Church, Canterbury, Historic Canterbury. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  8. ^ Hardcastle EH (1922) Short Guide to the Ancient Collegiate and Parish Church of All Saints, Maidstone. Walter Ruck, Maidstone.
  9. ^ Edward Hardcastle, CricInfo. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Hardcastle, Venerable Edward Hoare, Obituaries in 1945, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1946. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  11. ^ Edward Hardcastle, CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  12. ^ Wainewright JB (1907) Winchester College, 1836-1906 : a register, p.322. Winchester: P & G Wells. (Available online. Retrieved 26 August 2020.)
  13. ^ Court Circular, The Times, Issue 36167, 13 June 1900, p.9, col F. (Available online at The Times Digital Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 26 August 2020.)

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Church of England titles
Preceded by
Leonard Jauncey White-Thomson 		Archdeacon of Canterbury
1924 –- 1939 		Succeeded by
Thomas Karl Sopwith


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