George Hardinge

He was the third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Hardinge, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Pratt.

On 20 October 1777 he married Lucy, daughter and heiress of Richard Long of Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, who survived her husband.

In 1783 he was counsel in the House of Commons for the defence of Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet, and on 16 December of that year was counsel at the bar of the House of Lords for the East India Company, in opposition to Charles James Fox's India Bill.

On 16 December 1788 he supported William Pitt the Younger's resolution declaring the right of the Houses to appoint a regent.

On 5 April 1792 he pleaded at Warwick as counsel for the hundred in mitigation of the damages claimed by Joseph Priestley.

In August 1787 he had been appointed senior justice of the Welsh counties of Breconshire, Glamorgan, and Radnorshire.

Hardinge was 'the waggish Welsh judge, Jefferies Hardsman' of Lord Byron's Don Juan (xiii.

He was also the author of Rowley and Chatterton in the Shades, 1782 and of other writings, many of which are printed in his Miscellaneous Works, edited by his friend, John Nichols, 3 vols., London, 1818.