Nicholas Hardinge

Nicholas Hardinge (1699–1758) was an English civil servant, clerk to the House of Commons from 1731 to 1752 and then Secretary to the Treasury, and a Member of Parliament known also as a Neo-Latin poet.

During Hardinge's time at Cambridge a dispute arose over the expulsion of a student for political reflections directed against the Tories in a college exercise.

Hardinge's legal studies began with an investigation of the visitatorial power in connection with this quarrel, but his essay on the subject was never published.

[citation needed] Hardinge had a reputation as a classical scholar, and it was on his advice that James "Athenian" Stuart went to Athens.

Socio,’ London, (some copies bear the title ‘Latin Verses by the late Nicolas Hardinge, esq.’).