Joseph Hardcastle
Politician
1815 – 1899
Who was Joseph Hardcastle?
Joseph Alfred Hardcastle was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1847 and 1885.
Hardcastle was born at Clapham, London, the son of Alfred Hardcastle of Hatcham House, New Cross and the grandson of Joseph Hardcastle. He was educated at Mill Hill School and the Grammar School at Bury St Edmunds. He then studied at King's College, London and, after matriculating at Wadham College, Oxford, at Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained a scholarship in 1836. He was also admitted at the Inner Temple on 2 December 1837 and called to the Bar on 11 June 1841. He was a Cambridge Apostle.
He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey and a Justice of the Peace for Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.
Hardcastle was elected at the 1847 general election as Member of Parliament for Colchester, but was defeated in 1852. At the 1857 general election he was elected for Bury St Edmunds, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1874 general election.
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.
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- Born
- 1815
Clapham - Education
- Mill Hill School
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Died
- 1899
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on July 23, 2013
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