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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from a strongly Protestant point of view, was ordered to be published by the Long Parliament in May 1641, but remained unpublished at his death (most of this survives as Cambridge University Library, Additional MSS 2608-9, and a smaller part as British Library, Stowe MS 107) ; lic.to m. 14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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.