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SIR THOMAS DUFFUS HARDY (1804-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS DUFFUS See also:HARDY (1804-1878)  , See also:English See also:antiquary, was the third son of See also:Major See also:Thomas See also:Bartholomew See also:Price See also:Hardy, and belonged to a See also:family several members of which had distinguished themselves in the See also:British See also:navy . See also:Born at See also:Port Royal in See also:Jamaica on the 22nd of May 1804, he crossed over to See also:England and in 1819 entered the See also:Record See also:Office in the See also:Tower of See also:London . Trained under See also:Henry See also:Petrie (1768-1842) he gained a See also:sound knowledge of See also:palaeography, and soon began to edit selections of the public records . From 1861 until his See also:death on the 15th of See also:June 1878 he was See also:deputy-keeper of the Record Office, which just before his See also:appointment had been transferred to its new London headquarters in See also:Chancery See also:Lane . Hardy, who was knighted in 1873, had much to do with the appointment of the See also:Historical See also:Manuscripts See also:Commission in 1869 . See also:Sir T . Hardy edited the See also:Close Rolls, Rotuli litterarum clausarum, 1204-1227 (2 vols., 1833-1844), with an introduction entitled " A Description of the Close Rolls, with an See also:Account of the See also:early Courts of See also:Law and See also:Equity "; and the Patent Rolls, Rotuli litterarum patentium, 1201-1216 (1835), with introduction, " A Description of the Patent Rolls, to which is added an Itinerary of See also:King See also:John." He also edited the Rotuli de oblatis et finibus (1835), which See also:deal also with the See also:time of King John; the Rotuli Normanniae, 1200-1205 , and 1417-1418 (1835), containing letters and grants of the English See also:kings concerning the duchy of See also:Normandy; the See also:Charter Rolls, Rotuli chartarum, 110-1216 (1837), giving with this See also:work an account of the structure of charters; the Liberate Rolls, Rotuli de liberate ac de misis et praestitis regnante Johanne (1844); and the Modus tenendi parliamentum, with a See also:translation (1846) . He wrote A See also:Catalogue of Lords Chancellors, Keepers of the See also:Great See also:Seal, Masters of the Rolls and See also:Officers of the See also:Court of Chancery (1843) ; the See also:preface to Henry Petrie's Monumenta historica Britannica (1848); and Descriptive Catalogue of Materials See also:relating to the See also:History of Great See also:Britain and See also:Ireland (3 vols., 1862--1871) . He edited See also:William of See also:Malmesbury's De gestis regum anglorum (2 vols., 184o) ; he continued and corrected John le Neve's See also:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae (3 vols., See also:Oxford, 1854) ; and with C . T . See also:Martin he edited and translated L'Estorie See also:des Engles of See also:Geoffrey Gaimar (1888-1889) . He wrote See also:Syllabus in English of Documents in See also:Rymer's Foedera (3 vols., 1869-1885), and gave an account of the history of the public records from 1837 to 1851 in his See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life of Henry, See also:Lord Langdale (1852), Lord Langdale (1783-1851), See also:master of the rolls from 1836 to 1851, being largely responsible for the erection of the new Record Office .

Hardy took See also:

part in the controversy about, the date of the Athanasian creed, See also:writing The Athanasian Creed in connection with the See also:Utrecht Psalter (1872); and Further See also:Report on the Utrecht Psalter (1874) . His younger See also:brother, SIR WILLIAM HARDY (1807-1887), was also an antiquary . He entered the Record Office in 1823, leaving it in 183o to become keeper of the records of the duchy of See also:Lancaster . In 1868, when these records were presented by See also:Queen See also:Victoria to the nation, he returned to the Record Office as an assistant keeper, and in 1878 he succeeded his brother Sir Thomas as deputy-keeper, resigning in 1886 . He died on the 17th of See also:March 1887 . Sir W . Hardy edited Jehan de See also:Waurin's Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la See also:Grant Bretaigne (5 vols., 1864-1891) ; and he translated and edited the Charters of the Duchy of Lancaster (1845) .

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