He was a member of the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group which included the likes of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
[2] He then went on to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford as a Warner Exhibitioner and Honorary Scholar.
[2] Upon graduation, Hardie was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship in Balliol College, Oxford.
[4] He returned to England from Italy to become a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a tutor in classics.
[5] He then went on to work at the Admiralty's Inter-Services Topographical Department, based in Oxford, until the end of the war in 1945.
He was a member of the Inklings, the informal literary discussion group centred on the University of Oxford.
[7] Following his retirement in 1973, Hardie and his wife moved away from Oxford to Rackham Cottage, near the village of Pulborough, Sussex.