Hardwicke
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Hardwick and Hardwicke are common place names in England
- This is from the Old English pre 7th century word "heorde", meaning a herd or flock", with "wic", which like the later Viking word "thorp" described an outlying farm or settlement, which was dependent on a larger village. In some cases, "Hardwick" and "Hardwicke" are interchangeable and the spelling has evolved over time. Hardwicke and Hardwick are also surname
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Hardwicke
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
- This is from the Old English pre 7th century word "heorde", meaning a herd or flock", with "wic", which like the later Viking word "thorp" described an outlying farm or settlement, which was dependent on a larger village. In some cases, "Hardwick" and "Hardwicke" are interchangeable and the spelling has evolved over time. Hardwicke and Hardwick are also surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
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English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
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People
Hardwick- Alan HardwickAlan HardwickAlan Hardwick is an English television presenter based in Lincolnshire.-Early life:He is the son of a Derbyshire coal miner, living on Chesterfield Road in Staveley...
, English television presenter - Ben HardwickBen HardwickBenjamin Hardwick was Britain's youngest liver transplant patient. He became a celebrity through appearing on the BBC television programme That's Life! after his parents appealed for more awareness of organ donation when their son, who suffered from liver disease, urgently needed a transplant...
, liver transplant patient - Bess of HardwickBess of HardwickElizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1521 – 13 February 1608, known as Bess of Hardwick, was the daughter of John Hardwick, of Derbyshire and Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox...
- Billy HardwickBilly HardwickBilly Hardwick is a former right-handed ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association. He currently hails from Florida.-PBA career:...
, ten-pin bowler - Charlie HardwickCharlie HardwickClaire Elizabeth Hardwick is an English actress well known for her part in ITV's Emmerdale as Val Pollard.-Acting career:...
, English actress - Chris HardwickChris HardwickChristopher Ryan "Chris" Hardwick is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, musician, podcaster, television personality, and voice artist...
, American actor - Chris Hardwick (speed cuber)Chris Hardwick (speed cuber)Christopher Michael Hardwick is an American competitive speedcuber.Born in Merritt Island, Florida, he attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .He is known especially for his blindfolded world record solution times of Rubik's...
- Christopher George HardwickChristopher George HardwickThe Very Rev Christopher George Hardwick is the current Dean of Truro. He was born on 7 October 1957 and educated at King Edward VI School and the The Open University. He gave up a career in banking to study at Ripon College Cuddesdon and was ordained in 1992 he was a curate at Worcester then...
, English clergyman - Chuck HardwickChuck HardwickCharles Leighton Hardwick is a former state legislator in New Jersey, and a current Senior Vice President at Pfizer...
, state legislator in New Jersey - Damien HardwickDamien HardwickDamien Patrick Hardwick is a former Australian rules footballer and the coach of the Richmond Football Club.-Early life:He attended St Joseph's College in Ferntree Gully.-AFL playing career:...
, Australian rules footballer - Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), American literary critic and writer
- George HardwickGeorge HardwickGeorge Hardwick was an English football player and coach. During his time as an active player, he played left defender for Middlesbrough...
, English soccer player - Hank HardwickHank HardwickHarry J. "Hank" Hardwick was the 22nd head football coach for the United States Naval Academy Midshipmen located in Annapolis, Maryland and he held that position for two seasons, from 1937 until 1938. His coaching record at United States Naval Academy was 8 wins, 7 losses, and 3 ties...
, American football coach - Harold HardwickHarold HardwickHarold Hampton Hardwick was a versatile Australian sports star of the early 20th century - an Olympic gold-medal swimmer, national heavyweight boxing champion and a state representative rugby union player...
, Australian sportsman - Huntington HardwickHuntington HardwickHuntington Reed "Tack" Hardwick was an American football player. He played at the halfback and end positions for Harvard University and was selected as a unanimous first-team All-American in 1914...
, America football player - John HardwickJohn HardwickJohn Hardwick is a television, film and theatre director whose projects have been produced by companies such as Film4, BBC, Warp, Kudos, Channel4 and BFI.- Biography :...
, film director - Johnny HardwickJohnny HardwickJonathon David Hardwick Jr. is a stand-up comedian and voice actor. He is best known as the voice of Dale Gribble in the animated American television show King of the Hill. He served as staff writer, story editor, and producer for the show as well.-Biography and career:A native of Austin, Texas,...
, comedian - Kevin HardwickKevin HardwickKevin R. Hardwick is a political science professor at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York and an Erie County Legislator. Hardwick represented the 10th legislative district in 2009, which was redistricted and downsized to an 11-seat body...
, American political science professor - Lily Norling Hardwick (1890-1944), American painter and founding member of Women Painters of Washington
- Michael Hardwick, challenged sodomy laws in the U.S. state of Georgia
- Michelle HardwickMichelle HardwickMichelle Hardwick is an English actress.She is best known for her role as hospital receptionist Lizzie Hopkirk in the ITV1 drama series The Royal....
, English actress - Mollie HardwickMollie HardwickMollie Greenhalgh Hardwick was an English author who was best known for writing books that accompanied the TV series Upstairs, Downstairs....
, English author - Neil HardwickNeil HardwickRobert Neil Hardwick is a British-born Finnish theatre and TV director and writer. He was raised in Teversal, near Nottingham. His father was a teacher, and Neil Hardwick has described himself as "a second generation non-miner".At age 11, Hardwick was admitted to boarding school with a scholarship...
, British-born Finnish theatre and TV director and writer - Nick Hardwick (American football)
- Otto HardwickOtto HardwickOtto James "Toby" Hardwicke was a saxophone player associated with Duke Ellington.-Biography:Hardwick started on string bass at the age of 14, then moved to C-melody sax and finally settled on alto saxophone. A childhood friend of Duke Ellington's, Hardwick joined Ellington's first band in...
, saxophonist - Paul HardwickPaul HardwickPaul Hardwick was an English actor.-Selected filmography:*The Prince and the Showgirl *The Long Duel *Romeo and Juliet -External links:...
, Administration, part time Actor. - Peter HardwickPeter HardwickPeter Hardwick is an Australian food horticulturist and environmentalist, recognized as an early pioneer of the Australian bushfood industry...
, Australian food horticulturist and environmentalist - Philip HardwickPhilip HardwickPhilip Hardwick was an eminent English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and elsewhere...
, English architect - Philip Charles HardwickPhilip Charles Hardwick-Life:Philip Charles Hardwick was a notable English architect of the 19th century who was once described as "a careful and industrious student of mediaeval art"...
, English architect - Steve HardwickSteve HardwickSteven "Steve" Hardwick was a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for 6 professional teams during the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s.-External links:*...
, soccer player - Taylor HardwickTaylor HardwickTaylor Hardwick is an American architect, interior designer, filmmaker, and educator who designed hundreds of buildings throughout northeast Florida, predominantly in and near the city of Jacksonville....
, American architect - Thomas Hardwick, Sr. (1725-1798), English master mason and architect
- Thomas HardwickThomas HardwickThomas Hardwick was a British architect and a founding member of the Architect's Club in 1791.-Early life and career :Hardwick was born in Brentford, the son of a master mason turned architect also named Thomas Hardwick Thomas Hardwick (1752–1829) was a British architect and a founding...
(1752-1829), English architect - Thomas W. HardwickThomas W. HardwickThomas William Hardwick was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.Hardwick was born in Thomasville, Georgia. He graduated from Mercer University with a bachelor of arts degree in 1892 and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia in 1893...
(1872-1944), American politician - Walter HardwickWalter HardwickWalter Hardwick , 1997 Order of British Columbia recipient, was a distinguished community leader for many decades....
, Canadian academic - William G. HardwickWilliam G. HardwickWilliam Guy Hardwick was an American politician who served as the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama from 1955 to 1959.-External links:* by the Alabama Department of Archives & History...
, American politician
Hardwicke
- Catherine HardwickeCatherine HardwickeCatherine Hardwicke is an American production designer, film writer and film director. Her works include the independent film Thirteen, which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film's co-star, the Biblically-themed The Nativity Story, the vampire film Twilight, and the werewolf film Red Riding Hood...
, American film director - Cedric HardwickeCedric HardwickeSir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was a noted English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly fifty years...
, English actor - Earl of HardwickeEarl of HardwickeEarl of Hardwicke is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1754 for Philip Yorke, 1st Baron Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1737 to 1756. He had already been created Baron Hardwicke, of Hardwicke in the County of Gloucester, in 1733, and was made Viscount...
- Edward HardwickeEdward HardwickeEdward Hardwicke , sometimes credited as Edward Hardwick, was an English actor.-Early life and career:...
, English actor, son of Cedric - Thomas HardwickeThomas HardwickeMajor-General Thomas Hardwicke was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823. After returning to England he collaborated with John Edward Gray in the publication of Illustrations of Indian Zoology .At the age of 22, he joined the East India Company...
, British soldier and naturalist
Hardwick in England
- Hardwick HallHardwick HallHardwick Hall , in Derbyshire, is one of the most significant Elizabethan country houses in England. In common with its architect Robert Smythson's other works at both Longleat House and Wollaton Hall, Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest examples of the English interpretation of the Renaissance...
, Derbyshire, home of Bess of Hardwick - Hardwick, BuckinghamshireHardwick, BuckinghamshireHardwick is both a village and a civil parish within the Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale, about four miles north of Aylesbury....
- Hardwick, CambridgeshireHardwick, CambridgeshireHardwick is a village in the county of Cambridgeshire, England with a large housing estate located about west of the city of Cambridge and immediately south of the A428 Cambridge-St Neots road. It is about east of the newly developed village of Cambourne. The Village is nearly on the Greenwich...
- Hardwick, County DurhamHardwick, County DurhamHardwick is a housing estate in Stockton-on-Tees. Situated around North Tees Hospital, it is one of Stockton's largest housing estates, with just under 7,000 residents....
- Hardwick, Lincolnshire
- Hardwick, Norfolk
- Hardwick, NorthamptonshireHardwick, NorthamptonshireHadwick is a small village in Northamptonshire and is close to its post town, Wellingborough....
- Hardwick, Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Hardwick, Bicester, Oxfordshire
- Hardwick, West OxfordshireHardwick, West OxfordshireHardwick is a village on the A415 road, in the parish of Hardwick-with-Yelford, in the West Oxfordshire District, in the English county of Oxfordshire....
- Hardwick, Rutland Deserted Medieval VillageDeserted medieval villageIn the United Kingdom, a deserted medieval village is a former settlement which was abandoned during the Middle Ages, typically leaving no trace apart from earthworks or cropmarks. If there are fewer than three inhabited houses the convention is to regard the site as deserted; if there are more...
- Hardwick, Walsall
- East HardwickEast HardwickEast Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 191. Until 1974 it was part of Osgoldcross Rural District.The name 'East Hardwick' has its origins in Old English...
, West Yorkshire - Hardwick Village, Nottinghamshire
- Kempston HardwickKempston HardwickKempston Hardwick is a small village on the edge of the town of Kempston in Bedfordshire, England. Historically it was one of the hamlets or "ends" scattered across the parish of Kempston. It has a station on the Marston Vale Line which hit the headlines when it was revealed it only has one...
, Bedfordshire - Kites HardwickKites HardwickKites Hardwick is a hamlet in east Warwickshire, England, in the Leam Valley ward of Rugby Borough and in the civil parish of Leamington Hastings...
, Warwickshire - Priors HardwickPriors HardwickPriors Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the Stratford district of Warwickshire, England. The name derives from the fact that it was originally a manor belonging to the Priors of Coventry.- History :...
, Warwickshire - RAF HardwickRAF HardwickRAF Hardwick is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located W of Bungay in Norfolk and a similar distance from the A140 main road from Norwich to Ipswich.-Origins:...
, Norfolk - West HardwickWest HardwickWest Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 29. Until 1974 it formed part of Hemsworth Rural District....
, West Yorkshire - Kempston HardwickKempston HardwickKempston Hardwick is a small village on the edge of the town of Kempston in Bedfordshire, England. Historically it was one of the hamlets or "ends" scattered across the parish of Kempston. It has a station on the Marston Vale Line which hit the headlines when it was revealed it only has one...
, a village west of Bedford, Bedfordshire
Hardwicke in England
- Hardwicke (Elmstone-Hardwicke), Gloucestershire
- Hardwicke (Stroud), GloucestershireHardwicke (Stroud), GloucestershireHardwicke is a village south of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. Despite its close proximity to Gloucester, the village actually comes under Stroud Council....
- Hardwicke, Herefordshire
United States of America
- Hardwick, CaliforniaHardwick, CaliforniaHardwick is a census-designated place in Kings County, California, United States. It is part of the Hanford–Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 138 at the 2010 Census. The village is located northwest of Hanford, at an elevation of 249 feet .Hardwick is in the San...
- Hardwick, GeorgiaHardwick, GeorgiaHardwick or Hardwicke is a place in Bryan County, Georgia. The town was laid out in 1755. Harwick was the county seat of Bryan County from 1793 through 1797....
- Hardwick, MassachusettsHardwick, MassachusettsHardwick is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States, about west of the city of Worcester. It had a population of 2,990 at the 2010 census. It includes the villages of Hardwick, Gilbertville, Wheelwright and Old Furnace.- History :...
- Hardwick, MinnesotaHardwick, MinnesotaHardwick is a city in Rock County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 198 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
- Hardwick, VermontHardwick, VermontHardwick is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,174 at the 2000 census.It contains the incorporated village of Hardwick and the unincorporated villages of East Hardwick and Mackville...
- Hardwick FieldHardwick FieldHardwick Field , also known as Cleveland Municipal Airport, is a public airport located four miles northeast of the central business district of Cleveland, in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by the City of Cleveland....
(airport), Tennessee - Hardwick Township, New JerseyHardwick Township, New Jersey-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,464 people, 502 households, and 410 families residing in the township. The population density was 40.1 people per square mile . There were 530 housing units at an average density of 14.5 per square mile...
- Midway-Hardwick, GeorgiaMidway-Hardwick, GeorgiaMidway-Hardwick is a census-designated place in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,819 at the 2000 census. It is laid out around central state hospital. It is part of the Milledgeville Micropolitan Statistical Area. The zip code for Hardwick is 31034...
Other uses
- Hardwick (appliances)
- LNWR Improved Precedent ClassLNWR Improved Precedent ClassThe London and North Western Railway Improved Precedent Class or "Jumbo" Class is a class of 2-4-0 steam locomotive originally designed for express passenger work....
No 790 Hardwicke, a speed record breaking steam engine during the Race to the North
See also
- Hartwick (disambiguation)
- Herdwick, breed of sheep from Lake DistrictLake DistrictThe Lake District, also commonly known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous not only for its lakes and its mountains but also for its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth...