Sir Edmund Stracey Hardinge, 4th Baronet

Sir Edmund Stracey Hardinge, 4th Baronet (27 March 1833 – 8 April 1924) was the fourth of the Hardinge baronets and a first-class cricketer who played a single match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1861.

Early life Hardinge was born at Bidborough in Kent in 1833, the second son of Reverend Sir Charles Hardinge, 2nd Baronet, and Emily Bradford Callander. He was educated at Tonbridge School, where he played cricket in the school XI, and at University College, Oxford.

Cricket Despite playing club cricket regularly and being rated in the 1907 History of Kent County Cricket as a "hard hitter", "fast bowler with a low delivery" and a "good fieldsman", Hardinge's only First XI match was for Kent against Sussex at Tunbridge Wells in 1861. Throughout his adult life he lived at South Park in Penshurst, at Chiddingstone and in 1901 was living at Cheshunt. In 1877 he married Evelyn Stuart Maberly, daughter of Major General Evan Maberley, and the couple had four children, including one son Charles who became the 5th Baronet.