Bill Hardie Explained

Archibald George "Bill" Hardie (19 December 1908 – 28 February 1997) was Archdeacon of West Cumberland from 1971 until 1979.[1]

The son of the Most Rev. William George Hardie (Archbishop of the West Indies from 1945 to 1949), he was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate; Trinity College, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge; and ordained in 1935.[2] After a curacy at All Hallows, Lombard Street he was Chaplain at Repton School from 1936 to 1938; Vicar of St Alban, Golders Green from 1938 to 1944; Rector of Hexham Abbey from 1944 to 63; and Vicar and Rural Dean of Halifax from 1963 until 1971.[3]

Notes and References

  1. ‘HARDIE, Ven. Archibald George’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 13 Feb 2015
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976
  3. http://thepeerage.com/p48072.htm#i480712 thePeerage.com