15 Facts About Henry Hardy

Henry Robert Dugdale Hardy was born on 15 March 1949 and is a British academic, author and editor.

Henry Hardy's first edited volume was a collection of writings by Arnold Mallinson, an eccentric Oxford clergyman with whom he lodged for seven years.

Henry Hardy published this work under his own imprint.

Henry Hardy has been a Fellow of Wolfson College since 1990.

Henry Hardy's research revealed that Berlin had published well over 150 pieces by the late 1970s.

Henry Hardy's editing of Berlin's essays made Berlin's most important work widely available.

In 1990 Henry Hardy abandoned his career in publishing to work full-time on Berlin's unpublished essays, lectures, and correspondence.

Henry Hardy has edited eighteen volumes of Berlin's writings, as well as a four-volume edition of Berlin's letters, and two books and a pamphlet about Berlin.

In June 2015 Henry Hardy delivered the 7th Isaiah Berlin Memorial Lecture in Riga.

Henry Hardy, working with Jennifer Holmes, set about completing this project, adding poems from other sources, including Wadham College's Bowra papers.

Henry Hardy was unable to include all of Bowra's poems in 2005: two, written in 1950, remained unprintable: 'This was because their subject was still alive, and was unwilling to give his approval for their inclusion in his lifetime.

Henry Hardy relates how James Morwood 'visited him later in his Greek home to ask about his friendship with Bowra, he found that the hurt of reading the poems was still smarting.

In 1979 Henry Hardy married the historian of medicine Anne Wilkinson.

Henry Hardy married Mary Merry in 2013, and now lives with her in Wirral.

On 16 March 2021, Henry Hardy suffered a cardiac arrest, which would probably have killed him had he not been taken to hospital shortly beforehand after a series of blackouts.