HARDING, EDWARD, son of Henry Harding, Dorset; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1661.
HARDING, JAMES; b. Woodstock, Oxfordshire 31 Mar 1838; adm. 3 Oct 1850 (G); Cornet, 17th Lancers 3 Oct 1857; Lieut., 24 Dec 1858; retd. 24 Jun 1862; m. 4 Nov 1862 Henrietta Letitia, second dau. of Maj. Frederick Griffiths, Royal Artillery, Putney, Surrey; d. 20 Nov 1871.
HARDING, JOHN COKE, son of John Harding, Argyle Street, London [presumably John Cook Harding (sic), bapt. St. Thomas, Portsmouth, Hampshire 15 Jul 1781, son of John Harding, and Ann --- (IGI)]; adm.; in school list 1795; KS (aged 14) 1796; played cricket v. Eton at Lord’s 8 Aug 1799, 31 Jul 1800; Capt. of the School 1800; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1801, adm. pens. 14 May 1801, scholar 30 Apr 1802, matr. 1804; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 Jun 1805; living at Trelawne, Cornwall, in 1841 (1841 Census); m. 4 Jun 1806 (IGI) Mary, younger dau. of Sir Harry Trelawny, Bart. (qv).
HARDING, JOHN, third son of William Harding, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Chief Clerk, Transport Office, and Mary Harrison, only dau. of John Ackland, Camberwell, Surrey; b. 7 Jan 1805; adm. 12 Jan 1818; left 1821; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jan 1823; BA 1826; MA 1829; DD 1851; ordained deacon 1827, priest 1829 (both Ely); Curate, Wendy, Cambs. 1829; Minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea 1834; Rector of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, with St. Anne, Blackfriars, London 12 Feb 1836-51; Hon. Secretary, Church Pastoral Aid Society; consecrated Bishop of Bombay 10 Aug 1851; resigned Apr 1868; author, Texts and Thoughts for Christian Ministers, 1874, and other works; m. Mary, third dau. of William Tebbs, Proctor, Court of Arches; d. 18 Jun 1874. DNB.
HARDING, JOHN, only son of John Harding, Clynderwen, Pembs., and Sarah, sister of Barne Barne (qv); b.; adm. Christmas 1801; left 1805; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Apr 1803, scholar 1807, matr. Mich. 1806; LLB 1809; m. 1st, 19 Dec 1822 Frances, widow of Herbert Russell, and dau. of George Thornhill, Diddington, Hunts.; m. 2nd, 3 Aug 1829 Elizabeth Taylor; d. 28 Nov 1861, aged 72.
HARDING, SAMUEL; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1731/2; left 1737.
HARDING, THOMAS, twin brother of John Harding (adm. 1818, qv); b. 7 Jan 1805; adm. 12 Jan 1818; left 1821; Worcester Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jan 1823; BA 1826; MA 1829; ordained deacon 1828, priest 1829 (both London); Vicar of Bexley, Kent, from 9 Oct 1833; d. unm. 12 Nov 1874.
Harding, Thomas (or Hardinge); St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, BA 1604/5 ; MA 1608 (incorp.Oxford 9 Jul 1611) ; BD 1629 ; Usher, Westminster School ; Under Master, Westminster School 15 Dec 1610 (date of patent) - 1626 ; ordained ; Rector of Souldern, Oxford, from 28 Oct 1622 (as Hardinge) ; according to his M.I. at Souldern, he was “commonly called the Grecian, for his excellency in that tongue” (a description of him repeated by Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, iv, 719) ; built a new parsonage at Souldern, but left his family in poverty ; his massive manuscript Annals of Church Affaires, written from a strongly Protestant point of view, was ordered to be published by the Long Parliament in May 1641, but remained unpublished at his death (most of this survives as Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 2608-9, and a smaller part as British Library, Stowe MS 107) ; lic.to m. 14 May 1625 Joyce, widow of William Neile, Chapter Clerk, Westminster Abbey (and therefore sister-in-law of Richard Neile (qv)), and dau. of William Stapleton, Lilywood, Staffs. ; d. 10 Oct 1648. ODNB.