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 of Probate and Divorce, of which Court he became President under the Judicature Act of 1875. He was elected a Bencher of the Inn in 1878, and Reader in the following year. In 1891 he was appointed a Lord of Appeal, and at the same time created a Baron for life with the title of Lord Hannen of Burdock. Lord Hannen is best remembered in connection with the Parnell Commission, of which he was President in 1888, and as one of the arbitrators on the Behring Sea Question at Paris in 1892.

HARBERT. See HERBERT.

Admitted 10 March, 1592-3.

"Son and heir of Walter Harcourte of Staunton Harcourte, co. Oxford, Knight." He was born at Ellenhall in Staffordshire and educated at Oxford. In 1609 he went on a voyage to Guiana and wrote an account of his adventures in 1613, which was reprinted in Purchas's Pilgrimes in 1625 and in the Harleian Miscellany. He died 20 May, 1631.

Admitted 15 May, 1764.

Eldest son of (q.v.), he was born in Kingston-on-Thames on 22 June, 1743. He was called to the Bar 9 June, 1769, and in 1782 became King's Counsel and Solicitor-General to the Queen. He was also Counsel for the East India Company, and had a seat in Parliament. He was Reader in 1789 and Treasurer of the Inn in 1791. He died in 1816, at which time he held the position of a Welsh Judge. He is the author of the following treatises: Letters to Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings; The Essence of Malone; The Filial Tribute; Three Sermons, by a Layman; Essay on the Character of Jonathan; The Russian Chief, an Ode.

Admitted 12 October, 1721.

Son and heir of the Rev. Gideon Hardinge of Kingston-on-Thames, in which place he was born on 7 Feb. 1699. He was called to the Bar 26 Nov. 1725. In 1731 he obtained the office of Clerk of the House of Commons, and in 1752 became Joint Secretary to the Treasury. In 1748 and again in 1754 he represented the borough of Eye in Parliament. He died in 1816, and has left behind—Poems, Latin, Greek and English, with an Essay on Government (1818).

HARDWICKE, EARLS OF. See and.