Charles Hardwick

Charles Hardwick (22 September 1821 – 18 August 1859) was an English historian and a priest of the Church of England who became the Archdeacon of Ely.

For some years he was the secretary of the university branch association of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and promoted the proposed Oxford and Cambridge mission to Central Africa.

He was editor-in-chief of the Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, contributing descriptions of Early English literature.

In 1849 he read before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society An Historical Inquiry touching Saint Catherine of Alexandria (printed with a Semi-Saxon Legend in vol.

In 1850 he helped to edit the Book of Homilies for the university press, under the supervision of George Elwes Corrie, who had been his tutor.

For the university press he completed in 1858 an edition of the Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions of St. Matthew's Gospel, commenced by John Mitchell Kemble; and edited for the Master of the Rolls the Latin History of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preserved in the library of Trinity Hall.