John Harding (President of Magdalen)

John Harding (died 1610) was an English churchman and academic.

He was also involved in the translation of the Authorized King James Version, becoming leader of the First Oxford Company of translators after the death of John Rainolds.

He became a Fellow of Magdalen College, and was proctor in 1589.

He was rector of Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, from 1597, and a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1604.

He had three sons and four daughters by his wife Isabel (married before, under the name Clarke), including the translator and alchemist John Harding (died 1665), rector of Brinkworth.