The third son of Nicholas Hardinge, clerk of the House of Commons, George Hardinge attended Eton College (1753-60), Trinity College Cambridge (M.A. by mandate 1769) and the Middle Temple (1764). He was solicitor general (1782), member of Parliament for Old Sarum (1784-1802 — a sometimes ally of Edmund Burke), attorney-general to Queen Charlotte (1794) and senior justice of Brecon, Glamorgan (1787-1816). He was F.S.A. (1769), F.R.S. (1788). Byron refers to Hardinge as the "waggish Welsh Judge."
TEXT RECORDS:
1782Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades [Spenserian Stanzas].
1782Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades.
1782To the Dygne Reader, with this Discoursing Interlude.
1792Sonnet. Written in 1792, at Rennie in Ireland, where Spenser had an Estate, and resided.
1799The Editor, the Bookseller, and the Critic. An Eclogue.
1800 ca.An Elegy, in imitation of Gray.
1805 ca.Address intended for a Meeting of the Literary Fund.
PUBLICATIONS:
Rowley and Chatterton in the shades. 1782.
The defence of T. Rumbold, stated by his counsel. 1783.
A series of letters to Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke. 1791.
Chalmeriana: or a collection of papers ... occasioned by reading a late ... apology for the believers in the Shakespeare papers. 1800.
The editor, the booksellers, and the critic, an eclogue from No. XII of a collection of papers entitled Chalmeriana. 1800.
Essence of Malone. 1800.
Another essence of Malone. 1801.
The filial tribute. 1807.
To Charles Manning, Esq. [An elegy]. 1808.
The Russian chiefs, an ode. 1813.
Biographical anecdotes of Daniel Wray. 1816.
Biographical memoirs of the Rev. Sneyd Davies, D.D. 1816.
Miscellaneous works in prose and verse, ed. John Nichols. 3 vols, 1818.
Poems, Latin, Greek, and English, collected and revised by George Hardinge, Esq. 1818.
PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:
English
Welsh
Anglican
Eton College
Trinity College Cambridge
Master of Arts
Middle Temple
Inns of Court
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of Society of Antiquaries
Member of Parliament
courtier
lawyer
antiquary
editor
poet
Gentleman's Magazine
The Morning Chronicle
Dr. Mark Akenside
Bp. Lewis Bagot
Brooke Boothby
Edmund Burke
Richard Owen Cambridge
Edward Capell
George Chalmers
Richard Cumberland
Rev. Sneyd Davies
Capel Lofft
Edmond Malone
John Nichols
Rev. Richard Polwhele
Bp. Beilby Porteus
Anna Seward
Rev. Michael Tyson
Horace Walpole
REFERENCE:
DNB; not NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed).
David Rivers, Literary Memoirs of Living Authors (1798); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15); Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors (1816); obituary in New Monthly Magazine 5 (June 1816) 464; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 86 (May-June 1816) 469-70, 563; Annual Register for 1816 (1816) 215; memoir in Monthly Magazine 42 (February 1817) 85-86; memoir in Nichols, Illustations (1817-58) 3:1-48, correspondence 3:145-234 [portrait]; Life by John Nichols in Miscellaneous Works (1818) [portrait]; Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons (1832-34); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Eton College Register, 1753-1790 (1921); Longaker, in English Biography (1931) 232-34; Venn and Venn, Alum. Cant. (1940-54); Valentine, British Establishment (1970); Introduction in Hardinge, Rowley and Chatterton, ed. Joan Pittock (Los Angeles: Augustan Reprint Society, 1979).
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1. | 1813 William Hall: George Hardinge, 1813; in Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century (1812-15) 8:520. |
2. | 1814 Dr. Mark Akenside: George Hardinge, in Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the XVIII Century (1812-15) 8:521-25. |