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 St Christopher's College, Blackheath until her retirement in 1963.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  2. ^ 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. ^ a b c d e f Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 204–205. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  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. ^ 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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