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Wally
Hardinge |
Sheffield United FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F
0:
A 2
0% successful
1910
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Chief Petty Officer
Harold Thomas William Hardinge |
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Birth |
Thursday,
25 February 1886 in 'Albion Hill', Greenwich, Kent |
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registered in Greenwich January-March 1886 Greenwich was part of the Kent County Registration up until 1889 |
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Education |
'he went to Blackheath-road School... was
sent to Tonbridge Commercial School.' |
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According to the 1891
census, Harold is the youngest of three children, all sons, to William
Berkeley and
Ellen Eliza (née Manning). His father is a sailor and also deaf. They live at 48 Fairthorn
Road in Greenwich. |
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According to the 1901
census, Harold T. is an apprentice to a cricket ball maker. He and his two
brothers live with their mother at her fathers, Thomas H. Manning, at 57
Hyde Vale in Greenwich. Thomas is an insurance agent. |
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Marriage |
to Daisy Cornford, on Monday, 31 August 1908 at St. John's Church in
Deptford, London, he was living at 22 Lind Street at the time. |
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registered in Greenwich July-September 1908 |
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"The marriage took place last week in London of
'Wally' Hardinge, the Kent professional
cricketer, who is now playing for the Sheffield United football team. His
bride was Miss Daisy Cornford, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornford,
of Tonbridge." - The
Whitstable Times and Tankerton Press, Saturday, 12 September 1908. |
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Children |
Wally and Daisy Hardinge have one daughter together. Margaret Jeanne Daisy
(b.30 June 1918) |
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According to the 1911
census, H.T.W. is stated as a footballer and cricketer and is married to
Daisy. The two of them are boarding with the Turner's, tailors at 7
Havelock Square in Ecclesall Bierlow in Sheffield.
At the time of
his war service in the Navy, the Hardinge's were living at 25 Priory Road in
Tonbridge. Wally was a seaman on board the HMS President II. |
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According to the 1921
census, Harold T.W, still married, was staying at the Grand Hotel in Broad
Street, Bristol. He is a professional cricketer with Kent CC. He is
with Bill Ashdown, also a Kent cricketer. |
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"The sympathy of all sportsmen—especially cricketers—will be extended to
'Wally' Hardinge, the Kent and England cricketer, in the loss he sustained
by the death of his mother, who died last week."
- Sevenoaks Chronicle,
Friday, 31 December 1926 |
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His father died on 28 September 1927 in
Hong Kong. |
,%20Wally.png) "Summonses at Woolwich on Monday against a Kent
county cricketer and footballer of international repute, Harold Thomas
Hardinge, Bexley Road, Eltham, alleged that he travelled on the Southern
Railway without paying his fare, used a defaced ticket, and gave a false
address. The Magistrate, Mr. Griffith Jones, said that there was a doubt
in his mind, and the summonses would be dismissed, but Hardinge had
behaved very foolishly. Defendant pleaded not guilty. For the prosecution,
evidence was given that on the night of November 2nd, Hardinge arrived at
Mottingham and gave up a ticket, issued in August, from which the date had
been rubbed off. When questioned, defendant said the date might have been
rubbed off by keys in his pocket. At first he refused to give his name and
address, and after being followed on a 'bus, gave the name of Wilson, with
an address at Chiselhurst, which could not be traced. Hardinge, in
evidence, said that the ticket produced was not the one he gave up. He was
spoken to in an aggressive manner in front of other people, and he lost
his temper. That was why he gave a false address." - The
Whitstable Times and Tankerton Press, Saturday, 7 January 1933. |
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According to the 1939 register, Harold Thomas
William, a cement marketing company sales representative, and Daisy are
still married, and they live at 37 Charleville Mansions in Fulham, with
their daughter, Margaret.
London, and Kensington, Electoral
Registers confirm Harold and Daisy living at 56 Elgin Crescent in
Kensington in from at least 1948 until 1960.
His wife, Daisy, died 2 May 1964. |
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Death |
Saturday, 8 May 1965 at his daughter's home at 93 Tenison Road, Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire |
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aged
79 years 72 days |
registered in Cambridge April-June 1965 |
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Obituary |
,%20Wally.png) "Great
all-rounder dies at 79
"FORMER Kent and England cricketer
H. T. W. Hardinge has died at the age of 79 after a long illness. He had
been living with his daughter at Cambridge. Mr. Hardinge was associated
with Kent County Cricket Club for 31 years and retired in 1933. He was one
of a small band of sportsmen who have represented their country at both
cricket and association football. He first appeared for Kent in 1902 and
scored 33,519 runs and hit 75 hundreds during his first-class career. He
played for England against Australia in the third Test at Leeds in 1921.
As a soccer player, Mr. Hardinge played ten league games for Newcastle
United and was a brilliant centre-forward with Sheffield United and
Arsenal. He played against Scotland, in Glasgow in 1910. For many years
one of the best opening batsmen in the country, he was also a useful slow
left-arm bowler and took six wickets for nine runs against Warwickshire in
1929. His best season was 1928 when he scored 2,446 runs with an average
of nearly 60, making 263 not out against Gloucestershire. In 1913 he made
four centuries in successive innings, and has altogether scored two
separate hundreds in a match on four occasions." - Newcastle
Evening Chronicle, Monday, 10 May 1965 |
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Funeral |
cremated on Thursday, 13 May 1965 in Cambridge |
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Probate |
"HARDINGE
Harold Thomas William of 93 Tenison Road
Cambridge
died 8 May
1965 Probate
London
8 June to Lloyds Bank Limited.
Effects £1693."
[2025 equivalent: £28,723] |
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Source |
 Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & |
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Playing Career |
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Club(s) |
Began playing with Maidstone United FC before
being spotted and signed by Newcastle United FC on 6 May 1905. On 2 December
1907, Sheffield United FC beat Leeds City FC, Bradford City FC, rivals
Sunderland AFC, and both Nottingham clubs, Forest and County, and obtained his signature
and 'had to pay heavily'. Woolwich Arsenal FC paid
a £500 transfer fee for him on 17 June 1913, following Football
League mediation. Hardinge retired from playing in the 1921
close season. |
League honours
386 appearances, 175 goals |
Newcastle United FC 1905-06 nine appearances, one goal
debut: 2
September 1905 Sunderland AFC 3 Newcastle United FC 2.
Sheffield United FC 1907-13 147 appearances, 46
goals
debut: 7 December 1907 Sheffield United FC 2
Preston North End FC 0.
Woolwich Arsenal FC 1913-20 54 appearances, fourteen
goals
debut: 6 September 1913 Woolwich Arsenal FC 2 Leicester Fosse FC
1.
last:
17 January 1920 Manchester City FC 4 The Arsenal FC 1. |
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Club honours |
Football League
Division One Champions 1906-07 (0ᵃ); Division Two
third place 1913-14 (29ᵃ 4ᵍ); |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
Played first class cricket for Kent CCC
(1902-33, 623 matches) |
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Height/Weight |
5'
8", 11st.
8lbs [1905];
5'
7½", 11st.
4lbs [1907]; 5'
6½", 10st.
13½lbs [1910]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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Management Career |
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Club(s) |
Having been appointed on 19 January 1935 as
a coach, overseeing the reserve side. Hardinge became the caretaker manager at Tottenham
Hotspur FC on 24 April of that year, following the resignation of Percy
Smith, until the end of the season. |
League honours
P 6 W 2 D 1
L 3 |
Tottenham
Hotspur FC April-May 1935
Football League Division One bottom and relegated 1934-35 |
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England Career |
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Player number |
One of two who became the 350th
players (351) to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Inside-left |
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Only match |
No. 107, 2 April 1910,
Scotland
2 England 0,
a British Championship match at
Hampden Park,
Mount Florida, Glasgow, aged 24 years
35 days. |
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Major tournaments |
British Championship
1909-10; |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
None |
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Distinctions |
England Test
Cricketer (one test vs. Australia at Headingley, 1921, scored 30) |
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Beyond England |
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Served with the Royal Naval Air
Service from 27 April 1915 and the RAF from 1 April 1918, discharged 30
April 1920. Following a season coaching Leicestershire CC in
1934, had a spell as an FA instructor to Kent Secondary
Schoolboys, but decided to become the assistant manager at Tottenham Hotspur FC instead. He was also a
director of John Wisden & Co., the sports outfitters and publishing firm.
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An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.118. |
