The HARTLEY Surname Hall of Fame 2 A-F
Other notable bearers of the HARTLEY surname include:

Sir Alan Fleming HARTLEY [1882-1954] 

he succeeded (1942) General Sir Archibald WAVELL as commander in chief of British forces during WWII.
Lt Gen Alan FLEMING HARTLEY was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India, 1940

Catharine HARTLEY [b.1965]

Together with Fiona THORNEWILL, Catharine and Fiona became the first British women to walk the 680 mile journey across Antarctica to the South Pole between November 1999 and early January 2000. Later, between March and May 2001, Catharine and Fiona walked to the North Pole, hence they were the first women to reach both poles on foot. The trek went from tiny Ward Hunt Island in the Canadian Arctic to the North Pole, a distance of about 480 miles as the crow flies

Catherine Paul, Catherine, Fiona, Mike at the North Pole Catherine encounters rubble

Originally from Chichester, England but now living in London, Catharine has worked as a stage manager and location manager for theatre and then for the BBC. 
In 1992, Catharine set off for two years traveling on her own. During her time away she lived in the outback of Australia, jumped out of planes in New Zealand and spent time with the indigenous people of the Solomon Islands and Borneo. Her thirst for adventure increased and while cycling around Jordan she became intrigued by the polar regions. Three years later, after much research, Catharine was introduced to Adventure Network, who invited her to join their expedition to the South Pole. 

Struck down with frost bite and at the risk of losing her finger Catharine continued with the 680-mile journey, walking 8 hours a day, eating 5000 calories a day to keep her strength up and sleeping in 24-hour sunlight. She finally reached the South Pole in January 2000. 
North Pole 55-day Trek" - March 11th - May 5th 2001
The team had to battle extremely cold weather conditions, with temperatures as low as -50C, and a shifting ice pack on the Arctic Ocean. The real distance traveled, as a result of drifting ice, was probably closer to 600 miles.

My cousin Clive HARTLEY was a member of the 1960/70's 'bubblegum band' 'Peppermint Circus'

Peppermint Circus used an ex-Airport double-decker bus painted black, white and orange.They had it fitted with beds, lights, heating and a cooker.
Group members included bass guitarist Alan Tallis from Solihull, Paul Thomas, vocalist, James Curtis, the vocalist/songwriter, Clive Hartley from Coventry ... he played the first time on a television programme "LIFT OFF" when their previous organist dropped out suddenly, drummer Paul Langer and Barry Naylor.

Peppermint Circus had a big hit with "One Thing Could Lead to Another" - in Holland it reached no. 9 in the hit parade.

Other hits included "Let me go", arranged and produced by Mike Batt, and "School Days" They released 5 singles [Polydor/A&M label] between April 1968 and January 1970.

Doctor David HARTLEY MD FRS [1705-1757]

the English metaphysician, psychologist and philosopher was born June 1705 at Ludenden, Illingworth, Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire, to Reverend David HARTLEY, vicar of Armley, and his wife Everald WADSWORTH. His mother died three months after his birth.
David's brother was James HARTLEY [James HARTLEY's son was Robert HARTLEY > Isaac HARTLEY > Robert Milham HARTLEY > Marcellus HARTLEY: see Marcellus HARTLEY ].
David HARTLEY's father, an Anglican clergyman, died when David was only fifteen. David was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, at first for the Church, then changed direction [he most strongly objected to the theory of eternal punishment] and became a successful medical practitioner.

His chief work "Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations" [1749] relates psychology closely to physiology and develops a theory of the association of sensations with sets of ideas which forms part of an associationalist tradition running from HUME through to MILL and SPENCER. His links with COLERIDGE can be seen in his poetry and in his decision to name his eldest son HARTLEY COLERIDGE David HARTLEY lived at Newark, Bury St Edmunds, London, and finally died on 28th August 1757 at Bath, Somerset.

David HARTLEY was married twice. The first time in 1730 to Alice ROWLEY, who died the next year giving birth to their son David [1731-1813]. His second marriage was in 1735 to Elizabeth PACKER [1713-78], the daughter of Robert PACKER and Mary WINCHCOMBE of Shellingford and Bucklebury, both in Berkshire.
Mary WINCHCOMBE's grandparents were Sir Henry WINCHCOMBE and Frances HOWARD and her aunt was Viscountess Frances WINCHCOMBE b.1680 who had married Sir Henry St JOHN, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke ... her father was also named Sir Henry WINCHCOMBE. He married Elizabeth HUNGERFORD. Mary's sister was also named Frances and married Frederick St JOHN ... Frederick later became 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke and later married Lady Diana SPENCER daughter of the Duke of Malborough ... all are related to the SPENCER and CHURCHILL families and thereby the British Royal Family, and related to King Charles I and the Stuart Throne.
Lady Diana later married Topham BEAUCLERK, a friend of the famous Dr JOHNSTON. Topham was the son of Lord Sidney, his grandfather was Lord William, his great grandfather 1st Duke Charles BEAUCLERK, the son of King Charles II and Nell GWYN.

David HARTLEY had two sons - by his first wife Alice ROWLEY, David HARTLEY MP [below] and by his second wife Elizabeth PACKER, Winchcombe Henry HARTLEY. Also a daughter, Mary HARTLEY, well accomplished in literature and the fine arts.

Winchcombe Henry HARTLEY was Colonel of the Royal Gloucestershire Militia, and MP for the County of Berkshire in the Parliaments of 1774-80-90. He was married to Ann BLACKWELL in 1787 and died in 1794. His only son was the Rev. Winchcombe Henry Howard HARTLEY, Vicar of Bucklebury.

Rev. Hartley married to Elizabeth WATTS on 21st August 1809 [her father was Samuel WATTS of Williamstrip Park, Gloucester] and died 9th September 1832, leaving a son

Winchcombe Henry Howard HARTLEY, Colonel of the Gloucestershire Militia, and High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1838, [also a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, who married the Count Demetrius de PALATIANO of Corfu, a Greek noble].
William Henry Howard HARTLEY came into possession of Lyegrove Manor and Shaw-cum-Donnington Manor in 1833. He married Emily BIEDERMANN, daughter of the Rev. George A BIEDERMANN. After he died in 1881 the estates in Berkshire and Gloucestershire descended to his co-heiresses - the Countess de PALATIANO of Corfu, Mrs. WEBLEY-PARRY, Mrs. Acreman WHITE, and Mrs. Charles RUSSELL, but a partition of the estates was carried out in 1906. [Since that time the families of each of these ladies have been lords of the manor in turn. The title now being held by Willie Hartley RUSSELL whose father restored the remains of the old mansion to form the present Bucklebury House in the late 1950s.]

* Henry Harclay [c. 1270 – 1317] Chancellor of the University of Oxford [1313-1316], a former Priest educated at the University of Paris [c.1300] where he was influeneced by Scotus. He was later a Secular Master [c.1310] and Scholastic Philosopher, a radical 'Thinker' who questioned Aristotle regarding Infinity and Eternity. His twenty-nine Quaestiones Ordinariae cover a range of topics in metaphysics, theology, physical science, philosophical anthropology and ethics, which were among the most important of those debated in the early 14thC. The articles provide a window to this era, as Harclay discusses many of the main questions of his day: whether and why we choose what is evil, how God can know the future and we can still be free, what a virtue is, whether the human soul survives death, whether all things are made up of atoms. He was the son of Sir Michael Harclay and Joan Fitzjohn, and the younger brother of Andrew Harclay [see History Page]

David HARTLEY MP [1731-1813]

son of the metaphysician, psychologist and philosopher David HARTLEY [above], he was born at Bath, Somerset in 1731. David studied medicine at the University of Leyden. He lived at Little Sodbury House and later had homes at 20 Golden Square, London [1767-demolished in 1786], which he rented from his close relation Lady Frances Winchcombe, as well as an office for the commercial exploitation of his inventions on the opposite side of the square at No. 1, and a warehouse at Adelphi Wharf.. He also owned the Manor at East Shefford, which he bought from his half-brother, Winchcombe Henry HARTLEY in 1777, who bought it back in 1787 before passing it on to his son, Rev. Winchcombe Henry Howard HARTLEY.
During the 1760's David gained recognition as a scientist and, through mutual interests, became an intimate friend of Benjamin FRANKLIN.

On Putney Heath, to the south of Putney, is an obelisk erected by the corporation of London, with an inscription commemorating the experiments made in 1776, by David, which appeared to prove the efficacy of a method of building houses fire-proof, for the trial of which he had in 1774 obtained a grant from parliament of £2500. It consisted of laying thin iron or copper plates underneath floor boards, a system that had been invented and patented by his father David HARTLEY, fifty years previously. Between two floor boards were sheets of laminated iron or copper. This metallic lining made the floor air-tight, and thereby stopped the heated air; so that, although the inferior boards were actually charred, the less inflammable material of metal prevented the process of combustion from taking place in the superior boards. These sheets of iron or copper were not thicker than tinfoil, yet when interposed between the double set of boards, and deprived of air, they effectually stopped the progress of the fire. The invention, however, seems to have sunk entirely into obscurity. In practice, it seems to have had little effect at preventing the spread of fire in other buildings where it had been installed.
David entered Parliament as MP for Hull, East Yorkshire in 1774 and sat until 1780 and again from 1782 to 1784. David was sympathetic to the Rockingham Whigs, although he did not hold office in either Rockingham ministry. He was expert in public finance and opposed both the slave trade and the war with the American colonies. In 1778 he wrote a pamphlet "Letters on the American War" which accused Great Britain of tyranny over the colonies, urged recognition of American independence, and proposed 'mutual naturalization' between the two countries. Although a liberal on American policy, David was a long-time friend of NORTH and strongly disliked SHELBURNE. He supported the Coalition by voting against Shelburne's peace preliminaries. David was sent to Paris in April, 1783, to negotiate the definitive "Treaty of Paris" with the United States and to make a trade agreement. The Treaty was signed on 3rd September 1783. Featured in the picture [with David HARTLEY not yet painted in on the right] are John ADAMS, Benjamin FRANKLIN, John JAY, Henry LAURENS and William Temple FRANKLIN [the latter two were omitted from commemorative stamps] A 20 cents US postage stamp in 1996, commemorated the 200th anniversary of the "Treaty of Paris" [1783], which marked the formal end of the US independence from Great Britain.
After 1784 David HARTLEY retired from public life. He died at Bath, Somerset on 19th December 1813. On Putney Heath is an obelisk erected by the Corporation of London, in 1776, commemorating David HARTLEY's experiments. Belvedere, where the Hartleys lived, is described as a "most beautiful spot, upon a high hill, at one of the extremities of the town of Bath, commanding an enchanting view of the Avon and all the surrounding country".

see also, descendants of Doctor David HARTLEY MD FRS [1705] - Marcellus HARTLEY

Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Snr. [February 28, 1881 – December 25, 1963] was the Chairman of the Board of Remington Arms Company. He married Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge [1882-1973]. He lived in Hartley House, located at Spring Valley Road on Hartley Farms in Harding Township, New Jersey. The Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award is bestowed in his honor.

Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jnr. [1908 – August 29, 1930] was the heir to the Remington-Rockefeller fortune who died in a car accident in France. He was the son of Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller [1882-1973] and her husband, Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. [1881-1963]. He was a grandson of William Rockefeller, co-founder of Standard Oil, great-grandson of Remington Arms Company founder Marcellus Hartley, and grandnephew of Standard Oil's other co-founder, John D. Rockefeller. Dodge was often referred to as "Hartley." Dodge was instantly killed in an automobile accident on August 29, 1930, when his automobile struck a tree on the Bayonne-Bordeaux road in Mogesca, France shortly after his graduation from Princeton University in June 1930, where he played football. The car then caught fire and two passing motorists, Henri Dupin, and Paul Theau, pulled the dead body of Dodge out, and the still living Ralph Applegate. Dodges carotid artery had been severed, and the car engine was pushed against the back seat. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. went to the site of the accident and looked at the car and talked to the two men who pulled the bodies out of the wreck. His mother, Geraldine, had sent him there as a diversion from his hobby of aviation, which she felt was too dangerous. His parents provided for the Dodge Gateway on Princeton's campus in 1933 in his memory. In addition, the Dodges contributed to the construction of the gymnasium at Columbia University that is also named in his honour ... the Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center. Dodge's mother also gave Madison, New Jersey the Hartley Dodge Memorial Building that was dedicated on Memorial Day, Thursday, May 30, 1935 to house its police department. This building now houses Madison's Borough Hall.

'King' David HARTLEY [1730-1770] - Ringleader of a Gang, 'The Cragg Vale Coiners'

The removal by the Mint of wording around the edge of a gold Guinea, relying solely on the milling around the edge of the coin, was to make the act of 'coining' much simpler, since the milled edge of the coin could easily be reinstated with a file. The 'Coiner' having 'clipped' some of the gold away, first, the clipped gold was then used to forge fake coins. Even though the penalty for counterfeiting and 'coining' was death, it was too tempting, and lucrative, so the offence was fairly common during the 17th and 18th centuries.
'King' David's father was William HARTLEY of Bell House near Halifax [1703-1773]. His brothers were William of Erringden [1735-1789] and Isaac of Elphaborough Hall, Mytholmroyd [1732-1815]. They were also 'Coiners'.
David had served his Apprenticeship as an Ironworker in Birmingham, and it was from there that he returned to his fathers home around 1765 with his wife Grace SUTCLIFFE, who bore their first son, David [1766-1847], a daughter, Mary [1767-1793] and a second son Isaac [1769-1853].
'King' David was involved in 'Coining' for about five years. He was informed upon by another gang member, arrested and tried in 1770. He was sentenced to death and executed at Tyburn, York.
It is estimated that nearly three and a half million pounds worth of fake Guineas had been paid into banks. Some 9% of genuine coins had been 'clipped'.

Edmund HARTLEY [executed 1597] - Hung 'twice' for being a Witch

Edmund HARTLEY was a Magician and Travelling Cunjurer and was living at Cleworth, Leigh in Lancashire in the late 16thC. In 1597 he was accused of being a Witch and stood trial at Lancaster Castle.
The accusation was that in 1595, Edmund had used 'popish charms and herbs' to treat two children, John and Anne STARKIE of Cleworth Hall, who were said to have been 'seized with hysterical malady'. Edmund tried to charge their father Nicholas a fee of 40 shillings [equivalent to over a month's wages] for a year's treatment ... later he demanded more money from Nicholas, lest the children suffer further illness. A year later the children became ill again. Also that year, Edmund treated three girls, also from Cleworth Hall, who were suffering 'strange and sore fits' ... he treated them by kissing them, breathing the Devil into their bodies. He then repeated the act on three female servants. At one point Edmund drew a 'magic circle' around Nicholas whilst in a wood.
When questioned by local preachers, Edmund was found not to be able to recite the Lord's Prayer so they classed him a Witch, reported him, and he was arrested.
When Edmund's victims were examined they were found to be speechless ... somehow Edmund had paralised their mouths. One had seen an apparition of the Devil in Edmund. One child had barked and howled. Edmund was charged with 'bewitching' them.
Unfortunately at his trial, Edmund told the court the Devil would protect him, not a wise thing to have said. He was found guilty under an Act prohibiting 'conjuration of evil spirits' and was sentenced to death.
At the gallows, Edmund was strung up ... the halter broke ! He is said to have then made a full confession, whereupon a new rope was brought, he was stung up again ... after Edmund had been successfully hung a second time, priests attended to the children and women to drive away the demons ... they all, eventually, recovered.
In actual fact, the so-called 'Lancashire Witch Trials' were part of a wider Tudor 16thC-17thC campaign against Catholics, the most famous trial being the 'Pendle Witch Trial' of 1612, after which thirteen women and men were executed.

Edmund Baron HARTLEY [VC, CMG] [1847-1919] South African recipient of the Victoria Cross

Edmund was born 6th May 1847 at Ivybridge, Devon to Edmund HARTLEY and Sophia BARON.

Edmund aged 12 [photograph courtesy of James at WhatsThatPicture.com]

He received the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Aged 32 years old, and a Surgeon Major in the Cape Mounted Riflemen, South African Forces during the Basuto War, on 5th June 1879 in South Africa, Surgeon Major Hartley attended the wounded under fire at the unsuccessful attack at Morosi's Mountain. From an exposed position, on open pround, he carried in his arms a wounded corporal of the Cape Mounted Riflemen. The surgeon major then returned under severe enemy fire in order to dress the wounds of the other men of the storming party. Edmund died 20th March 1919 at Ash, Hampshire.

Professor Frank HARTLEY CBE, BSc, PhD, CChem, FRSC, FPS, HonFRCP, HonFRCS, Hon FRSC 1978 [b.19**] Former Vice Chancellor at Cranfield University, UK.

Professor Hartley graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford as a BA (later MA) DPhil and later DSc. From 1988 - 90 Professor Hartley acted as special advisor on defence systems to the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He has been a member of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee since 1987 and vice president from 1995 until 1998. He was appointed a special advisor to the House of Lords select committee on science and technology for the 1993/4 parliamentary session. 
Professor Hartley became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1976 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1996.
He has published over a dozen books, several with Japanese, Chinese and Russian editions, in the fields of chemistry and military technology.
Professor Frank Hartley retired as Vice-Chancellor at Cranfield University on 22 December 2006.

His father Sir Frank HARTLEY is mentioned below.

Sir Frank HARTLEY [5 January 1911 - 26 January 1997] Pharmacist

Frank Hartley was a distinguished Industrial and Academic Pharmacist who began his career as an Apprentice in a Pharmacy in Nelson, Lancashire, became Vice-Chancellor of the University of London and was Knighted for his services to Pharmacy. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1979; later the surgeons similarly honoured him.
1937: married Lydia ENGLAND [who died 1996; two sons]
1946-1962 Director of Research and Scientific Services, British Drug Houses
1962-1976: Dean, School of Pharmacy, London University 1977: Fellow
1965-1967: President, Royal Society of Chemistry
1970: CBE
1973-1976: Deputy Vice-Chancellor, London University
1976-1978: Vice-Chancellor
1977: Knighted
died Easenhall, Warwickshire.

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