Ernest Hardy
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Ernest George Hardy (15 January 1852 – 26 October 1925) was a classicist and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1921 to 1925.
Biography[edit]
Hardy was born in Hampstead, England and was educated at Highgate School. He then went to Exeter College, Oxford, from 1871 to 1875, where he was a scholar and achieved a double-first in Literae Humaniores.[1] He was elected a Fellow of Jesus College in 1875.[1] He resigned in 1878 (after his marriage).[2] He taught at Felsted School for two years and was headmaster of The King's School, Grantham (1879–87), where he met Frederick Rolfe, then an undermaster at the school.[3] He resigned following a struggle with the governors, and moved back to Oxford where he carried out private research.[1]
He taught classics at Jesus College from 1894 (after David Ritchie was appointed to a professorship at the University of St Andrews) and he was re-elected to a Fellowship at Jesus College in 1896.[1][2] He became Vice-Principal in 1897 and wrote a history of the college in 1899.[1] He remained a long-term friend of Frederick Rolfe, and in 1904 wrote a letter commending Rolfe which is reprinted in Symons' biographical study of Rolfe.[3] After Sir John Rhys died in 1915, the Principalship was vacant until 1921, when Hardy was elected.[4] He died suddenly in 1925, three weeks after presiding at the first College Gaudy since 1914.[5]
Works[edit]
- Christianity and the Roman Government: a Study in Imperial Administration (London: Longman, Greens & Co., 1894)
- Jesus College (London: F. E. Robinson, 1899)
- Studies in Roman History (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1906)
- Six Roman Laws (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911)
- Roman Laws and Charters (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912)
- Some Problems in Roman History: Ten Essays Bearing on the Administrative and Legislative Work of Julius Caesar (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924)
- The Catilinarian Conspiracy in its Context: a Re-study of the Evidence (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1924)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Dr. E. G. Hardy, Roman Historian and Oxford Head". The Times. 27 October 1925. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
- ^ a b Baker, J. N. L. (1971). Jesus College 1571–1971. Oxonian Press Ltd, Oxford. pp. 72–73. ISBN 0-9502164-0-2.
- ^ a b Symons, A. J. A. (1966). The Quest for Corvo. Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth. pp. 44, 57/8 and 186. ISBN 0-940322-61-7.
- ^ Baker, Jesus College, p. 119.
- ^ Baker, Jesus College, pp. 126–127.
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