Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (born 1769)

Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet

Royal Navy officer (1769–1839)

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He took part in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797, the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 and the Battle of Copenhagen in…