Wyndham Harding

Wyndham Harding (1817–1855) was an English civil engineer and philanthropist.

Biography He was Secretary of the London and South-Western Railway Company.

He was awarded the Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1847,

Apart from being an active supporter of Mechanics’ Institutes, Benefit Societies, and similar institutions, he expended a large portion of his wealth in promoting systematic emigration. As a philanthropist, he earned the well-merited gratitude of hundreds, whom he assisted in procuring a free passage to Australia, or to whom he advanced loans for that purpose, including working with Caroline Chisholm.

"The inhabitants of Southampton will long remember the day when Mrs. Chisholm and Mr. Harding met, to witness the departure of the first Australian emigrant-ship which sailed from that port, freighted, under her superintendence, at his expense and risk."