Admiral of the White Sir Charles Hardy ( – 18 May 1780) was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1764 and 1780. He served as governor of New York from 1755 to 1757.
Early career
Born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hardy, Charles Hardy joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer in 1731.
He became a captain in the Royal Navy on 10 August 1741, In 1744 he was appointed governor and commander-in-chief of the British colony of Newfoundland, though there is no record of his visiting it during his term in office.
Member of Parliament
Hardy sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1764 to 1768 and for Plymouth from 1771 to 1780.
Personal life
In 1749 Hardy married Mary Tate, who died the next year without issue and left him her home, Delapré Abbey; he sold it in 1764 to Edward Bouverie for £22,000. Following his first wife's death, he married Catharine Stanyan,