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HARDY, SIR THOMAS DUFFUS (1804-1878)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 947 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HARDY, SIR THOMAS DUFFUS (1804-1878) , English antiquary, was the third son of Major Thomas Bartholomew Price
Hardy
 , and belonged to a family several members of which had distinguished themselves in the British navy. Born at Port Royal in Jamaica on the 22nd of May 1804, he crossed over to England and in 1819 entered the Record Office in the Tower of London. Trained under
Henry
  Petrie (1768-1842) he gained a sound knowledge of
palaeography
 , and soon began to edit selections of the public records. From 1861 until his death on the 15th of June 1878 he was deputy-keeper of the Record Office, which just before his appointment had been transferred to its new London headquarters in Chancery Lane.
Hardy
 , who was knighted in 1873, had much to do with the appointment of the Historical Manuscripts Commission in 1869.
Sir T. Hardy edited the Close Rolls, Rotuli litterarum clausarum, 1204-1227 (2 vols., 1833-1844), with an introduction entitled " A Description of the Close Rolls, with an Account of the early Courts of Law and Equity "; and the Patent Rolls, Rotuli litterarum patentium, 1201-1216 (1835), with introduction, " A Description of the Patent Rolls, to which is added an Itinerary of King John." He also edited the Rotuli de oblatis et finibus (1835), which deal also with the time of King John; the Rotuli Normanniae, 1200-1205 , and 1417-1418 (1835), containing letters and grants of the English kings concerning the duchy of Normandy; the Charter Rolls, Rotuli chartarum, 110-1216 (1837), giving with this
work
  an account of the structure of charters; the Liberate Rolls, Rotuli de liberate ac de misis et praestitis regnante Johanne (1844); and the Modus tenendi parliamentum, with a translation (1846). He wrote A Catalogue of Lords Chancellors, Keepers of the
Great
  Seal, Masters of the Rolls and Officers of the Court of Chancery (1843) ; the preface to
Henry
  Petrie's Monumenta historica Britannica (1848); and Descriptive Catalogue of Materials relating to the History of
Great
  Britain and Ireland (3 vols., 1862--1871). He edited William of Malmesbury's De gestis regum anglorum (2 vols., 184o) ; he continued and corrected John le Neve's
Fasti
  ecclesiae Anglicanae (3 vols., Oxford, 1854) ; and with C. T. Martin he edited and translated L'Estorie des Engles of Geoffrey Gaimar (1888-1889). He wrote Syllabus in English of Documents in Rymer's Foedera (3 vols., 1869-1885), and gave an account of the history of the public records from 1837 to 1851 in his Memoirs of the Life of Henry, Lord Langdale (1852), Lord Langdale (1783-1851), master of the rolls from 1836 to 1851, being largely responsible for the erection of the new Record Office. Hardy took part in the controversy about, the date of the Athanasian creed, writing The Athanasian Creed in connection with the Utrecht Psalter (1872); and Further Report on the Utrecht Psalter (1874).
His younger brother, SIR WILLIAM HARDY (1807-1887), was also an antiquary. He entered the Record Office in 1823, leaving it in 183o to become keeper of the records of the duchy of
Lancaster
 . In 1868, when these records were presented by Queen Victoria to the nation, he returned to the Record Office as an assistant keeper, and in 1878 he succeeded his brother Sir Thomas as deputy-keeper, resigning in 1886. He died on the 17th of March 1887.
Sir W. Hardy edited Jehan de Waurin's Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne (5 vols., 1864-1891) ; and he translated and edited the Charters of the Duchy of
Lancaster
  (1845).


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