Wentworth Marmaduke HARDY (1846-1919)

WENTWORTH MARMADUKE HARDY, Government surveyor, Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, is the only son of the late Mr. Edward Hardy, of Yorkshire, England, and was born at Auckland, New Zealand, in the year 1846. At the age of two years he was taken to England by his parents, and received his education in that country and in France. At the close of his scholastic career, in 1865, Mr. Hardy landed in South Australia, and, in the following month (October), entered the Survey Department of the State. He accompanied the Surveyor-General to Port Darwin, in December, 1868, as surveyor and draughtsman, and gradually rose in the service, until, in January, 1878, he received the appointment of trigonometrical surveyor. Six years later, at the recommendation of the Surveyor-General of Victoria, and to carry out certain suggested reforms, Mr. Hardy was appointed Inspector of Surveys and Professional Adviser in the Survey Department of Tasmania, which post he held until 1889. He afterwards filled the position of District Surveyor to the department for seven years, relinquishing it in 1906 in order to accept a similar appointment to the Government of South Australia, which office he has discharged ever since.

He was immediately transferred to Kangaroo Island, and was for some time engaged in the survey of land which is shortly to be thrown open for purposes of selection. In 1880 Mr. Hardy married Marion Lucy, only daughter of the late Dr. Oldmeadow, of Hobart, Tasmania, and there are two daughters and one son of the marriage.

- Cyclopedia of South Australia, 1909, p.1013