John Stockdale Hardy

John Stockdale Hardy (1793–1849) was an English legal practitioner known as an antiquary.

Born at Leicester 7 October 1793, he was the only child of William Hardy, a manufacturer there.

After education in a private school in Leicester, he was admitted a proctor and notary public, and became a practitioner in the ecclesiastical courts.

[2] He retained all his legal appointments till his death at Leicester on 19 July 1849.

[1] Hardy's Literary Remains were collected by John Gough Nichols, and published at Westminster in 1852.