Robert Maynard Hardy The Independent – Blue murder in the cathedral: At Lincoln... (Accessed 11 November 2013) (5 October 19369 April 2021) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England.Daily Telegraph Issue no 51,625 dated Monday 10 May 2021 Obituary p25: "The Right Reverend Robert Hardy- Popular Bishop of Lincoln whose pastoral skills were tested by conflict with the cathedral chaper"
Early life Hardy was born on 5 October 1936. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, WakefieldWho’s Who 2008 (London, A & C Black, 2008) and Clare College, Cambridge.
Career Hardy trained for ordination at Cuddesdon College, and was ordained deacon in 1962 and priest in 1963.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 404. His first position was at All Saints and Martyrs' Church, Langley, Manchester, after which he became a chaplain (and fellow) of Selwyn College, Cambridge.Crockford's clerical directory 2008 London, Church House 2007 Following this he was appointed Vicar of Borehamwood then Director of the St Albans Diocese Ministerial Training Scheme. In 1980 he was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Maidstone.The Times, 4 September 1980; p. 2; Issue 60715; col D, "New Bishop of Maidstone" In 1987 he was translated to be the Bishop of Lincoln.Debrett's, People of Today: Ed Ellis, P (1992, London, Debtrett's), ) He retired in 2001, resigning his See effective 31 October. He also served as Bishop to HM Prisons, 1985–2001.
Later life In retirement, from 2001, he continued to serve as an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Carlisle, while living at Langwathby, Cumbria.
On 16 June 2001, as part of that year's Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to the Church of England, and to Prisoners".
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