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HARDINGE 



J. Keir Hardie, 

 Labour leader 



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ravaging of Worcestershire, and by 

 a short quarrel with Earl Godwin. 

 He died, says the A.S. Chronicle, 

 as lie stood at drink, June 9, 10-42. 

 Hardie, JAMES KEIR (1856- 

 1915). British labour leader. Born 

 in Scotland, Aug. 15, 1856, he 

 worked in the 

 mines from the 

 age of seven 

 until his 24th 

 year, when he 

 was elected sec- 

 retary to the 

 Lanarkshire 

 Miners' Union. 

 From 1882-86 

 he was editor 

 of The Cum- 

 nock News, and 

 in 1888 unsuccessfully contested 

 Mid Lanark. An advocate of an 

 independent labour party, he be- 

 came one of the founders and 

 the chairman of the I.L.P., 1893. 

 Labour M.P. for West Ham, 

 1892-95, and for Merthyr Tydvil, 

 from 1900 till his death, he started 

 and edited The Labour Leader. 

 He died Sept. 26, 1915. 



Harding, JAMES DUFFIELD 

 (1798-1863). English painter. 

 Born at Deptford, he studied under 

 Paul Sandby 

 and Samuel 

 Prout. He was 

 elected asso- 

 ciate of the 

 Old Water Col- 

 our Society in 

 1820 and mem- 

 ber in 1821. 

 His sketches 

 were facile but 

 a little super- 

 | ficial ; he was the first to use papers 

 i of various tints. One may cite his 

 ! Falls of Schaffhausen, 1855, View 

 | of Fribourg, 1855, and the 

 Picturesque Selections, 1861. He 

 died at Barnes, Dec. 4, 1863. 



Harding WARREN GAMALIEL 

 (1865-1923). American president. 

 Born Nov. 2, 1.865, in a farmhouse 

 near the village of Blooming Grove, 

 in Morrow co., Ohio, the son of 

 George T. Harding, a doctor, he 

 was educated in the school of his 

 village and at a college at Caledonia 

 in his native state. Having been a 

 schoolmaster for two years he 

 started work in the printer's shop 

 at Blooming Grove, and in 1884 

 with the help of his father acquired 

 The Marion Star, the local news- 



Eaper of the village in which his 

 imily settled in the early 'eighties. 

 From 1899-1903 he represented 

 Marion in the senate of Ohio, and 

 from 1904-6 was lieutenant- 

 governor of the state. 



In 1912 he nominated W. H. Taft, 

 and followed him when Roosevelt 

 split the Republican party. In 



James D. Harding, 

 English painter 



1914 he was elected to the senate 

 of Washington, where he was 

 member of the foreign relations 

 committee. In 1916 Harding 

 made the keynote speech of the 

 convention which nominated C. E. 

 Hughes for the presidency. 



Before the Great War he paid 

 three long visits to Europe and 

 studied fiscal and labour questions. 

 In its early stages he came out 

 openly against President Wilson's 

 refusal to take steps to meet the 

 spread of the European conflagra- 

 tion across the Atlantic, and backed 

 Roosevelt in trying to arouse the 

 president to a sense of impending 

 emergencies. When the U.S.A. 

 entered the war he favoured Roose- 

 velt's plan for sending a volunteer 

 division to France without delav. 



Warren Gamaliel Harding. 

 President of the U.S.A. 



Harding was unanimously nomi- 

 nated in June, 1920, as the Re- 

 publican candidate for the presi- 

 dency at the Chicago convention. 

 He was a compromise candidate 

 after the failure of both the con- 

 servative and the radical wings of 

 the party to get their nominees 

 accepted. He was elected presi- 

 dent on Nov. 2, 1920, by 16,181,289 

 votes to 9,141,750 cast for Gover- 

 nor Cox, his Democratic opponent, 

 carrying 37 out of 48 states and 

 the entire country outside the 

 traditionally Democratic south. 



Harding's sweeping victory 

 showed the national disgust with 

 the personal domination of the 

 president, so marked a feature of 

 the Wilson regime, and the general 

 desire of the country to concen- 

 trate its energies on American 

 affairs. He spent part of the four 

 months before he took office in 

 consulting what he termed the 

 best minds among the Republican 

 party, and at Marion he held a 

 series of conferences on questions 

 of the day with experienced poli- 

 ticians, financiers, and men of 

 affairs. His first speeches showed 

 that he believed in an effective 

 protective tariff and the free use 



of the Panama canal by American 

 shipping; also that the United 

 States, with its vast natural re- 

 sources, had a great part to play 

 in the world. Consequently, though 

 elected on a platform which re- 

 pudiated the League of Nations 

 as established by the treaty of 

 Versailles, he tried to bring about 

 some new association in which 

 America should play a part. He 

 died Aug. 2, 1923. 



Hardinge, HENRY HARDINGE. 

 1ST VISCOUNT (1785-1856). British 

 soldier and administrator. Of an 

 old Kentish 

 family, he was 

 born at Wrot- 

 ham, March 30, 

 1785, and edu- 

 cated at Eton. 

 Having en- 

 tered the army, 

 he served in 

 the Peninsular 

 War, and in 

 1815 was with 

 the Prussian 

 army at Ligny, 

 where he was 

 wounded. In 1820 Sir Henry 

 entered Parliament as M.P. for 

 Durham, and in 1828 he became 

 secretary at war under Wellington ; 

 in 1830 he was chief secretary for 

 Ireland, as he was again in the 

 Tory ministry of 1834-35. From 

 1841-44 he was again secretary at 

 war, resigning to become governor- 

 general of India. He was there 

 until 1852, carrying through the 

 wars against the Sikhs and being 

 rewarded in 1846 with a viscounty. 

 From 1852 to 1856 he was com- 

 mander-in-chief. He died Sept. 24, 

 1856, and his title is still held by 

 his descendants. See Sikh Wars ; 

 consult also Viscount Hardinge, 

 C. Hardinge, 1891. 



Hardinge, CHARLES HAEDTXGE, 

 IST BARON (b. 1858). British diplo- 

 matist. Born June 20, 1858, a 

 younger son of 

 the 2nd Vis- 

 count Har- 

 dinge, he was 

 educated at 

 Harrow and 

 Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. In 

 1 880 he entered 

 the diplomatic 

 service, and 

 gained e x p e- 

 rience in seve- 

 ral capitals, especially St. Peters- 

 burg, 1898-1903. After being as- 

 sistant under-secretary for foreign 

 affairs, he went to St. Petersburg 

 as ambassador in 1904, returning 

 to London in 1 906 to become under- 

 secretary at the foreign office. 



In 1910 he was appointed vice- 

 roy of India, being raised to the 



Baron Hardinge, 

 British diplomatist 



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