Cecil Harry Huddlestone Hay Hadgraft (8 June 1904 – 19 February 1987) was an Australian academic and literary critic.
He eventually graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1929 and was awarded first-class honours in 1931 with a thesis on "aspects of the mock-heroic in English verse and drama to 1781".
[1] In 1948, Hadgraft joined the University of Queensland's English department teaching evening classes.
His books included Queensland and Its Writers (1959), Australian Literature: A Critical Account to 1955 (1960), and James Brunton Stephens (1969).
He was editor of two anthologies of Australian short stories and oversaw the republication of works by Henry Savery, Frederick Sinnett, and Jessie Couvreur.