Edward Hardcastle was a British

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 businessman and Conservative

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1874 and 1892.

Hardcastle was the second son of Alfred Hardcastle of Hatcham House

New Cross

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, Surrey

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 and his wife Eliza Smith of Manchester. His uncle J A Hardcastle was member of parliament

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 for Bury St Edmunds

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. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge

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 and Downing College, Cambridge

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 before going into trade as a merchant, making his home at Prestwich

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, Lancashire

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. In 1863 he helped form the Manchester Southern Independence Association to provide support to the Confederate States of America

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. He was also a J.P.

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Lancashire, a governor of Owen's College, and of Cheetham Hospital, and a trustee of Manchester Grammar School

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.

Hardcastle was elected as one of two Conservative MPs for South East Lancashire

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 at the 1874 general election

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. At the next election in 1880

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 both Hardcastle and his colleague Algernon Egerton

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 lost to Liberal Party

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 candidates.

Hardcastle returned to Commons at the 1885 general election

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, when he became the first MP for the newly created constiuency of Salford North

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. He held the seat until 1892

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, when he stood down, and was replaced as MP by William Holland

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 of the Liberals.

Hardcastle married Priscilla Buxton Hoare, daughter of Samuel Hoare, Junior, banker of Lombard Street, in 1851. Among their sons was Edward Hardcastle, Archdeacon of Canterbury

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