Henry Ernest Hardy

HARDY, Henry Ernest. b. Kasauli, India, 7 January 1869; d. Bushey Heath, Watford, Hertfordshire, 31 March 1946. The son of an Indian Army Officer, Edmund Armitage Hardy, and his wife Grace Maxwell, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, an art school in Bristol, and Keble College, Oxford (BA 1891). He had intended to become a painter, but in October 1891 he went to Oxford House, Bethnal Green, East London, as a volunteer helping underprivileged people, and found himself called to become a priest. After attending Ely Theological College, he took Holy Orders (deacon 1894, priest 1895), serving as assistant curate of St Andrew’s, Plaistow and then as curate in charge of that church and...