Edward Hardcastle (1826 – 1 November 1905) was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1892.
[2] In 1863 he helped form the Manchester Southern Independence Association to provide support to the Confederate States of America.
[3] He was also a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire, a governor of Owen's College, and of Cheetham Hospital, and a trustee of Manchester Grammar School.
Hardcastle returned to Commons at the 1885 general election, when he became the first MP for the newly created constituency of Salford North.
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