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Rh left to navigate her, Capt. Harding was confirmed, 23 July, 1831, into the 18, in which sloop he returned to the Cape. He was transferred, 16 Sept. following, to the Second-Captaincy of the 76, bearing .the flag in South America of Sir Thos. Baker, with whom he remained until paid off in March, 1833. He was lastly, from 21 Jan. 1837 until Aug. 1839, employed in command of the 16, on the East India station; during which period we find his services eliciting the thanks of the Governor-General in Council, also of Sir Jas. Stirling, the Governor of Western Australia, and of Sir John Franklin, the Governor of Van Diemen’s Land. At the expiration of the above period, nine months whereof he had acted as Senior naval officer in the Australian colonies, Capt. Harding’s health obliged him to seek a temporary cessation from the active duties of his profession. He acquired his present rank 23 Nov. 1841.

Capt. Harding married, 23 Oct. 1833, Davidona Eleanor, daughter of Gen. Chas. Dallas, Governor of St. Helena, by whom he has issue one son and one daughter.

 HARDING. 

entered the Navy, 5 March, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capt. John Laugharne, successive flag-ship at Newfoundland of Vice- Admirals Sir Erasmus Gower and John Holloway. He afterwards, on removing to the 18, Capt. Geo. Le Geyt, contributed, as Midshipman, to the capture and destruction, 12 and 13 Dec. 1808, of Le Cygne corvette of 18 guns, and two schooners, near St. Pierre, Martinique. Quitting the latter vessel in Jan. 1811, he next, between that period and March, 1816, served, on the North Sea, Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope, Channel, and Leith stations, in the 74,, , , and  frigates,  74, and  16, Capts. Robt. Rolles, Rowland Mainwaring, Jeremiah Coghlan, John Strutt Peyton, Hon. Granville Proby, Phipps Hornby, Wm. Henry Webley, and John Ross. While attached with Capt. Proby to the, Mr. Harding served on shore with the patriots at the siege of Tarragona in 1813. He was presented, on leaving the, with a commission dated back to 20 March, 1815; and, since 28 Feb. 1826, has been employed in the Coast Guard.

 HARDING. 

entered the Navy, 19 Dec. 1805, on board the 80, Capt. John Chambers White, in which ship, until Nov. 1812, he continued, chiefly as Midshipman, to serve, on the Home, Lisbon, and Brazilian stations, under the successive flags of Admirals Sir John Borlase Warren, Albemarle Bertie, Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, and Hon. Michael De Courcy. Returning then to England he joined the 38, Capt. Murray Maxwell, under whom, on eventually arriving in the East Indies, he was wrecked, off the island of Ceylon, 2 July, 1813. In consequence of that catastrophe he was received on board the 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, in which ship he remained until Sept. 1814, when he became Acting-Lieutenant of the 18, Capt. John Allen. Being confirmed, 11 Feb. 1815, into the 10, Mr. Harding, during a continuance of a few months in that vessel, and prior to the arrival of the proper Captain, the Hon. Arthur Turnour, appears to have discharged the duties of sole commander. He was subsequently appointed – 7 Jan. 1824 and 5 March, 1825 to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the 74, and  42, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 21 April, 1832, to the yacht, Capt. Edw. Galwey, lying at Dublin – 29 Sept. 1832 and 5 Sept. 1835, to the 110, and  104, flag-ships at Plymouth of Sir Manley Dixon and Sir Wm. Hargood – 14 Dec. 1842 (after seven years of half-pay), to the command of the steam surveying-vessel, employed, until the close of 1844, on the North American station – 4 April, 1845, to the  steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, on the S.E. coast of America – and, 1 Dec. 1845, to the 8, Capt. Gower Lowe. With the exception of the, Mr. Harding was attached as an Additional-Lieutenant to all the above ships, and was employed the whole time on surveying service. Since his promotion to the rank of Commander, which took place 9 Nov. 1846, he has been on half-pay.

 HARDMAN. 

passed his examination 1 June, 1839; and from the latter part of 1841 until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, 30 Dec. 1845, was employed as Mate, on the Mediterranean and East India station, in the 84, Capts. Sir Chas. Sullivan and Geo. Fred. Rich, flagship latterly of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, and 12, Capt. Thos. Pickering Thompson. He has since been on half-pay.

 HARDWICK. 

died 8 March, 1846. This officer entered the Navy, 23 May, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 50, Capt. John Laugharne, in which ship, and the  50, bearing each the flag of Vice- Admiral John Holloway, he served at Newfoundland, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until May, 1810. During the next two years we find him continuously employed with Capt. John Allen, in the 36,  74, and  38, on the Greenland, Mediterranean, and Channel stations. He was then transferred to the 74, Capt. Willoughby Thos. Lake, and in the course of the following summer was very actively employed in cooperation with the patriots on the north coast of Spain, where he witnessed the reduction of Castro, Puerta Galletta, Quetaria, St. Ano, &c. He was promoted, after making a voyage in the same ship to the West Indies, to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 8 March, 1815; but he did not again go afloat.

 HARDWICKE, Earl of. 

, Earl of Hardwicke, born 2 April, 1799, is son of the late Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, K.C.B., M.P. (whose father and- grandfather were each Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), by his first wife, Elizabeth Weake, daughter of Jas. Rattray, Esq., of Atherstone; and nephew of the Right Hon. Chas. Philip Yorke, who filled the office of First Lord of the Admiralty from Nov. 1809 to March, 1812. One of his grand-uncles, the late Lord Dover, K.B., held high rank in the Army, and acted as Aide-de-Camp to H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Fontenoy; and another, James, died Bishop of Ely in 1808. His Lordship succeeded to his titles on the demise of his uncle Philip Yorke, third Earl of Hardwicke, formerly Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 18 Nov. 1834. 