Joseph Alfred Hardcastle (1815–1899)[3][4] was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1847 and 1885.
He was also admitted at the Inner Temple on 2 December 1837 and called to the Bar on 11 June 1841.
He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey and a Justice of the Peace for Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
[7] He was re-elected at the 1880 general election, but when the borough's representation was reduced to one seat for the 1885 general election, he was defeated by the Conservative candidate, and did not stand again.
[8] Hardcastle died at Woodlands, Beaminster, Dorset at the age of 83.