The Very Reverend Brian Albert Hardy (3 July 1931 – 16 November 2019) was Dean of Edinburgh from 1986 to 1991.

Educated at St John's College, Oxford, he was ordained after a period of study at Westcott House Cambridge, deacon in 1957Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 and priest in 1958. He was the curate at Rugeley from 1957 to 1962 then Chaplain at Downing College, Cambridge from 1962 to 1966.‘HARDY, Rev. Canon Brian Albert’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013; online edn, Dec 2013 accessed 9 Aug 2014 He was Curate in charge at Livingston from 1966 to 1974; Churches’ Planning Officer for Telford from 1974 to 1978; Chaplain to Edinburgh Theological College from 1978 to 1982; Rector of St Columba's by the Castle Edinburgh from 1982 to 1991.”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M p376 : Edinburgh T & T Clark before his time as Dean.

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