William Hardie

Who was William Hardie?

The Most Rev William George Hardie, CBE was a long serving Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1931 until 1949; and for the last four of that time Archbishop of the West Indies.

He was born in 1878 and educated at Giggleswick School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge and ordained in 1902. His first posts were curacies at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge and then Christ Church, Greenwich. Later he held incumbencies at Holy Trinity, Swansea, St John’s, Lowestoft and St Luke’s, Finchley. In 1928 he was appointed Assistant Bishop of Jamaica before promotion to be its Diocesan three years later. He died on 21 February 1950.