William M. Hardinge.Educated at Balliol College, Oxford. Translator of French and classical Greek poetry. Won the Newdigate prize in 1876 for his poem Troy. Contributed to Magazine of Art and Temple Bar. Corresponded with Walter Pater. Friends with William Michael Rossetti and Lucy Madox Brown. Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry; At the Circulating Library; Angela Thirlwell, William and Lucy: The Other Rosettis, Yale UP, 2003, pp. 247-49. (CC)