Charles Hardwick

Charles Hardwick (22 September 1821 – 18 August 1859) was an English historian and a priest of the Church of England who became the Archdeacon of Ely.

Harwick was born in Slingsby, North Yorkshire, the son of Charles Hardwick, a joiner. After receiving some instruction at Slingsby, Malton, and Sheffield, he acted for a short time as an usher at schools in Thornton and Malton and as an assistant to the Revd Henry Barlow at Shirland rectory in Derbyshire.

In October 1840, Hardwick unsuccessfully competed for a sizarship at St John's College, Cambridge. He became a pensioner and afterwards a minor scholar of St Catharine's Hall and was the first senior optime in January 1844. After being a tutor for the family of Sir Joseph Radcliffe in Brussels, he was elected as a fellow of his college in 1845. He was ordained deacon in 1846 and priest in 1847, in which year also he proceeded M.A.

He was select preacher at Cambridge for 1850 and in March 1851 became preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. From March to September 1853 he was a professor of divinity at Queen's College, Birmingham (a predecessor college of Birmingham University). In 1855 he was appointed a lecturer in divinity at King's College, Cambridge, and Christian advocate in the university. In 1856 he was elected a member of the newly established council of the senate and was re-elected in 1858. For some years he was the secretary of the university branch association of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and promoted the proposed Oxford and Cambridge mission to Central Africa.

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