The HARTLEY Surname Hall of Fame 2 G-L
Other notable bearers of the HARTLEY surname include:

Hal HARTLEY [b. November 1959, Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York, USA]

American film director, writer, producer, composer, actor [see Fame3.html]

The HARTLEY Mob [USA] one of the "Gangs of New York"
In the period between 1880 and 1920, five major gangs controlled the underbelly of Manhattan. In Lower Manhattan was the Hartley Mob of Houston and Broadway. They would ride around in hearses, their weapons concealed in the black drapery.

Brigadier-General Sir Harold Brewer HARTLEY [1878-1972] Chemical Engineer. 

Brigadier-General Sir Harold Hartley K.C.V.O; C.B.E; M.C; F.R.S; of Hughenden, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire held many positions related to Chemical Engineering. Educated at Oxford, he became a Fellow at Balliol College in Physical Chemistry. He was a Director for The Times; first Chairman of British Airways; a recipient of the Hoover Award; and a friend of Churchill. There is a Silver Medal issued to outstanding scientists known as the Hartley Silver Medal. Hartley lived on Boss Lane, Hughenden

Henry HARTLEY [1815-1876] Hunter/Trader/Explorer - South Africa/Rhodesia. 

Credit for opening up Rhodesia belongs not only to the missionaries but also to the early hunters and prospectors. One of the most famous of the hunters was Henry HARTLEY who as a child came out to South Africa with the 1820 Settlers. Henry was born in abt.September 1815 to Thomas and Sarah [nee FIELD] at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was baptised on 3rd September 1815 at the Wesleyan Methodist, Mansfield.

[pic showing Thomas Baines, seated, sketching Henry Hartley]

In 1841 Hartley moved to the Transvaal and went hunting in Matabeleland in 1859. Thereafter he paid visits nearly every season to present-day Rhodesia. Henry became a good friend of King Mzilikazi of The Ndebele. During 1865, while hunting in Mashonaland, Hartley accidentally discovered gold. Soon afterwards, Hartley, Adam Renders and the geologist Carl Mauch, while exploring north of Great Zimbabwe, realized the extent of gold present around the old African mining villages along the Mfuli and Tati Rivers. At Potchefstroom, in December 1867, Hartley and Mauch announced the extent of gold present in Mashonaland, thus beginning the first gold rush as prospectors and miners from Europe and Australia began the long trek northward up the missionaries' road. The Transvaal Government did its utmost to get hold of the Tati goldfields, but the ailing king, remembering old enmity with the Boers, steadily refused to allow them a grant.

In 1869 Hartley was engaged by Thomas Baines, acting on behalf of the newly formed South African Goldfields Exploration Company, to guide him to the Mashonaland goldfields. Baines ranked only just below Livingstone, Stanley and Park in the hierarchy of Victorian explorers in Africa. Baines must also be considered one of the founders of modern Rhodesia.

Henry married three times and left abt.eight children. He died at his farm 'Thorndale' in the Transvaal on 8th February 1876

Jesse HARTLEY [1780-1860 ] English Architect, designed The Albert Dock at Liverpool, England.

Jesse Hartley designed and built the Albert Dock and its warehouses. At the time he was surveyor to the Liverpool Dock Trustees and by far the highest-paid salaried engineer in the country. In the 36 years he spent working for the Liverpool Dock Trustees, Hartley either built or altered every dock in the city. The quality of his work and its longevity suggests that it was more than just a job to him - they are a testament to his dedication and attention to detail.
The Victoria Tower, built by Hartley in 1848 at the entrance to Salisbury Dock
His position gave Hartley the opportunity to deal with each dock as part of a whole system, rather than simply as a stand-alone basin. He was acutely aware of the importance of good communication between docks, through railways, canals and roads, as well as ease and safety of access for ships. Hartley was certainly thorough, and liked to supervise every stage of design and execution.
While planning the Albert Dock and its warehouses, possibly his most famous creation, Hartley built models of the warehouses to test the brick arches. While not a particularly novel designer Hartley nevertheless created a number of new uses for iron including crane arches on the walls of the warehouses. He also mocked up a large-scale model to observe how a layer of iron beneath a wooden floor helped it resist fire. Hartley's stressed-skin roof structure was the first of its kind and a dazzling piece of innovation. It consisted of wrought iron plates, riveted together to produce a light but sturdy structure that was less of a target for thieves, and in the event of a fire was less likely to cause damage to passers-by. It was also an expensive development, only adopted for the extra security it afforded the building. Hartley's designs were both practical and economically sensible, showing a pragmatic and prudent nature. Not all of Hartley's designs are as sombre and purely functional as the Albert Dock: the hydraulic accumulator tower at Canada Dock looks more like a castle than a dock structure.
At the far end of Albert Dock is a plaque in his honour, placed by the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Jonathan Scott HARTLEY [1845-1912] Sculptor

Jonathan was born in Albany, New York, 23 September, 1845. He was educated at the Albany academy and began his professional life as a worker in marble. Subsequently he went to England, where he passed three years, entered the Royal academy, and gained a silver medal in 1869. After residing for a year in Germany, he returned to the United States, and after another visit to Europe, when he went to Paris and Rome, he became a resident of New York. He is one of the original members of the Salmagundi sketch club, and was professor of anatomy in the schools of the Art students' league in 1878-'84, and president of the league in 1879-'80. His works include "The Young Samaritan," "King Rene's Daughter" (1872); "The Whirlwind" (1878); a statue of Miles Morgan, erected at Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1882, and bas-reliefs on the monument at Saratoga that commemorates the defeat of Burgoyne.

J R HARTLEY [author of "Fly Fishing" by J R Hartley]

Keef HARTLEY [b.1944]

Keef HARTLEY [r] with Eric CLAPTON [l] and John MAYALL [standing]

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Keef HARTLEY was born on 8th March, 1944, at Preston, Lancashire, England.

The Keef HARTLEY Band of the late 1960s forged jazz and rock music sympathetically to appeal to the UK progressive music scene. Drummer HARTLEY had already seen vast experience in live performances as Ringo Starr's replacement in Rory Storm And The Hurricanes

L[eslie] P[oles] HARTLEY CBE [30th December 1895 - 13th December 1972] English Novelist.

L.P.Hartley was born at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. Leslie's mother was Mary Elizabeth [Bessie] [née THOMPSON]. His father, Harry Bark HARTLEY, was a solicitor in Peterborough.
L.P. Hartley was given the name Leslie after Virginia Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen. He had two sisters, Enid Vary, who was three years older, and Annie Norah who was eight years younger.
In 1908 the family was able to move in to Fletton Tower, a few minutes from the centre of Peterborough, and which was styled as a miniature castle protected by a high wall and trees. Leslie and Enid Hartley were first taught at home by a teacher who came after he had finished his day's work at a local school. Enid Hartley was then sent to St Felix School at Southwold.
In the autumn of 1908 Leslie Hartley became a boarder at Northdown Hill preparatory school in Cliftonville, Thanet. In August 1909 he was invited by one of the other boys, Moxey, to stay with his family at Bradenham Hall which they had rented from the Rider Haggards, near Swaffham in Norfolk. It seems plausible that this inspired elements in The Go-Between, with Bradenham Hall becoming Brandham Hall, and Moxey becoming Maudsley.
In April 1910 Leslie Hartley became a boarder at Clifton College, a public school on the edge of Bristol. He was then sent to Harrow School. He ended up as head of the school.
In December 1914 he won an exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford, and he arrived there in October 1915 to study Modern History. However, with the start of the First World War the future at Oxford was uncertain and he wondered for some time whether he should enlist in the Army. In the spring of 1916 he made his decision and left Balliol College.
In April 1916 he enlisted as a gunner and went to Cooden Camp, Bexley and then he was transferred to an infantry regiment at Catterick Bridge in north Yorkshire, where he took on the job of the camp's postman. He was then sent to an officers' training corps at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was made into a Second Lieutenant. He was invalided out of the army in September 1918.
After a year of further recuperation he returned to Oxford in October 1919. He became a member of the Brackenbury Society and also of the Pagan Society. When he was President of the Pagans he had the task of introducing and thanking Siegfried Sassoon who gave an address to the Society.
In March 1920 he was made a co-editor of the Oxford Outlook along with Gerald Howard and A. B. B. Valentine, and he began to commission work from authors such as Charles Morgan, L. A. G. Strong, Edmund Blunden, Louis Golding, John Strachey, and C. M. Bowra. His own work began to appear in the publication, including The Cat, Night Fears, A Portrait, A Summons, A Condition of Release, and The Duke's Tragedy. Between the wars he lived in Venice. Then he lived alone, apart from servants, in London, Salisbury, and near Bath. His trilogy The Shrimp and the Anemone, (1944), The Sixth Heaven, (1946), and Eustace and Hilda, (1947), is a study of the intense relationship between a brother and sister from childhood to maturity. It was awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize. His novel The Go-Between, (1953), won the Heinemann Foundation Award. The novel was adapted for film in 1971, as was The Hireling in 1973. Leslie was awarded a CBE in 1956 and was named a Companion of Literature in 1972.

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