Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1714)

Charles Hardy

Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator

Admiral Sir Charles Hardy was a Royal Navy officer, politician and colonial administrator who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1764 and 1780. He served as governor of New York from 1755 to 1757.

List of colonial governors of New York

The territory which would later become the state of New York was settled by European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony under the command of the Dutch West India Company in the Seventeenth Century. These colonists were largely of Dutch, Flemish, Walloon, and German…