William Hardie (archbishop of the West Indies)

William George Hardie CBE^[1] (20 August 1878 – 21 February 1950) was a long serving Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1931 until 1949. For the last four of those years he also served as Archbishop of the West Indies.

Hardie in 1934

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He was born in 1878 and educated at Highgate School from 1889 to 1890,^[2] then at Giggleswick School^[3] and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. From Ridley Hall, Cambridge he was ordained in 1902.^[4][5] His first posts were curacies at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge^[6] and then Christ Church, Greenwich.^[7] Later he held incumbencies at Holy Trinity, Swansea,^[8] St John's, Lowestoft^[9] and St Luke's, Finchley.^[10] In 1928 he was appointed Assistant Bishop^[11] of Jamaica^[12] before promotion to be its Diocesan three years later.^[13] He was invested Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1950 New Year Honours.

He died on 21 February 1950.