John Hardman Snr
Born 1767
Died 1844
Country of birth and death: England
Button maker, medallist, metalwork manufacturer
Lived in Handsworth, Staffordshire. He was a button maker, medallist and metalwork manufacturer. He founded the family business out of which John Hardman and Co grew in 1838. (See entries for John Hardman and John Hardman and Co.)
Personal and Professional Connections
Grandmother/grandfather/grandparent to John Bernard Hardman
Mother/father/parent of John Hardman
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Ann Eatwell and Ruth Gosling, ‘Hardman family (per. c.1820–1935)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67862, accessed 11 Jan 2010]
Citing this record
'John Hardman Snr', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1263315775, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
