| Authorised form of name | Hardwicke; Thomas (? 1755 - 1835) |
| Dates | ? 1755 - 1835 |
| Date of birth | 1755 or 1756 |
| Place of death | The Lodge, South Lambeth, London |
| Date of death | 03 March or 03 May 1835 |
| Research field | Natural history |
| Activity | Career:
In the service of the HEIC; country cadet (1778); Lieutenant (February, 1784); Captain (August 1784); Major (July, 1804); Lieutenant Colonel (September, 1804); Colonel (1817); Major General (1819); served in the 2nd and 3rd Mysore Wars; retired to Bangalore and was appointed Adjutant and Commander of Artillery (1793); visited Mauritius and collected many specimens (1813) which were presented, through Sir Joseph Banks, to the British Museum; made extensive zoological collections in India; published, with the help of John Edward Gray (FRS 1832) 'Illustrations of Indian Zoology' (1830-1835)
Memberships:
FLS (1804); Asiatic Society
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 08/04/1813 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Notes:
Source of alternative dates: a letter from Stewart Anderson (24 Feb 1977) indicating that Thomas Hardwicke was born in 1756 at Bourne, South Lincolnshire, and died on 3 Mar 1835. |
| Code | NA7440 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1813/02 | Hardwicke, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/682/20 | Letter from Thomas Hardwicke, Wisbech, to James Sowerby, 2 Mead Place, Lambeth, London | 12 October 1813 |
| MM/10/30 | "Notes on Thomas Hardwicke, FRS", by Warren R Dawson | 13 February 1934 |
| NLB/37/153 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to H Junius Hardwicke, MD, Southfield Mount, 216 Bohemia Road, St Leonards on Sea | 3 February 1908 |
| IM/001940 | Hardwicke, Thomas | nd |