Edward Hardcastle (priest)

Edward Hoare Hardcastle (6 March 1862 – 20 May 1945) was an Anglican clergyman in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century.

[1][2] Son of Conservative politician Edward Hardcastle and his wife Priscilla Hoare, Harcastle was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1887.

After taking three wickets in the first innings of his first match, he was unsuccessful as a bowler and scored only 12 runs in first-class cricket.

[3][9] He had played cricket at school and in the freshman's match at Cambridge, and played for a number of other teams in non-first-class matches, including MCC, the Gentlemen of Kent, Worcestershire, Free Foresters and Band of Brothers as a left-arm fast bowler.

[10] His daughter, Monica Alice Hardcastle, was assistant advisor in religious education for the Diocese of Chichester from 1931 to 1948 and then Principal of St Christopher's College, Blackheath until her retirement in 1963.