Sir David William Hardy (14 July 1930 – 9 April 2020) was a British businessman.
David William Hardy was born on 14 July 1930, the son of Brigadier John Hardy MC, an officer in the King's Own Royal Regiment, who commanded the Nile Valley during the Second World War.
[1] He was educated at Wellington College, which "he greatly disliked", and qualified as a chartered accountant with Hodgson Morris in Liverpool, before completing his national service in Germany with the Royal Horse Artillery.
[1] He once had a DLR train reversed in order to pick up the Queen.
[1] He was knighted in the 1992 Birthday Honours, for his role as chairman of the London Docklands Development Corporation.