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Confirmed on the roll as Chaplain aboard H.M.S. Dreadnought at Trafalgar. 28 N.G.S. medals were issued to Chaplains, including 3 for Trafalgar.
Thomas Hardwicke was the son of Samuel Hardwicke, of St Peters, Worcester, and was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He matriculated on 23 June 1789, and gained his B.A. in 1802, and M.A. in 1805. Made Fellow from 1822 to 1837, he was then Provost from 1831, and B. and D.D. in 1836. Hardwick was appointed to be a Chaplain in the Royal Navy aboard H.M.S. Illustrious in May 1804, and to the Dreadnought on 16 May 1805, in which ship he was present at the battle of Trafalgar. Returning to his studies at Oxford University, he was later rector of Neen Sollers cum Milson, Shropshire. He died on 20 February 1855
