In January 1850 the settlement was officially named "Hardwicke" after the Earl of Hardwicke, the governor of the company.
Hardwicke Reformatory, established in 1852, has been claimed as the first Approved School for boys in the world.
William Trye (1660-1717), of Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, was an English politician.
Cedric Hardwicke | Catherine Hardwicke | Hardwicke Rawnsley | Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke | Hardwicke, Gloucestershire | Hardwicke | Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke | 5th Earl of Hardwicke |
Two years later, the company went on to purchase a New Jersey park developed by the Hardwicke Companies and designed by Warner LeRoy (son of Wizard of Oz director, Mervyn LeRoy), called Great Adventure.
This picture was owned by Dr. Lort of Cambridge, who gave it to the Earl of Hardwicke, and at the 5th Earl of Hardwicke's 1888 sale of pictures at Wimpole Hall it was bought by the National Portrait Gallery.
Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (1784–1808), English politician, eldest son of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
He has been played several times in adaptations of Tom Brown's School Days, including by Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the 1940 film version, Robert Newton in the 1951 film version, Iain Cuthbertson in the 1971 television version and Stephen Fry in the 2005 television version.