William Cecil Hardisty

• Born   :    1855 at West Derby, Liverpool
• Married  :  1895 Clementina Mellor.
• Died   :     25 February 1921 at 17, Brighton Grove, Rusholme, Manchester

The son of William Hardisty, for many years Borough Treasurer of Birkenhead, William Cecil Hardisty was born in Liverpool in 1855. He was educated at private schools in Birkenhead before serving articles with W and J Hay, of Liverpool, 1871-1876, he came to Manchester in 1878. After spending some years as manager in the office of Messrs Pennington and Bridgen, he commenced practice on his own account in Queen's Chambers, John Dalton Street where he acted as architect to the Boards of Management of the Royal Eye Hospital, the Hospital for Consumption, and the Ancoats Hospital, and in connection with the last-named institution completed an extensive Accident and Out patients' Department.

He was the architect of the Crossley Sanatorium at Delamere, Cheshire, which was one of the first such institutions to be erected in England for the treatment of tuberculosis. It was given to the Manchester Consumption Hospital by William Crossley, whose investigations in Germany, accompanied by Cecil Hardisty, led to its building. The design was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1902. His principal church work is the building of Christ Church, Moss Side, the design for which was hung in the Royal Academy of 1897; St Chad’s Ladybarn; St Philip’s, Gorton; and two churches at Oxton, Birkenhead.

W C Hardisty, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1906, was for fifty years a chorister in Manchester, for thirty-five of them at St Benedict’s Ardwick, where at one period he was church warden.

On 9 October 1895 he married Clementina Mellor daughter of  Thomas Mellor surgeon of 3 Duke Street, Moss Side at St Benedict’s Church, Ardwick

William Cecil Hardisty died on 25 February 1921 at 17, Brighton Grove, Rusholme.

Address
1892-1913    Queen's Chambers, 5, John Dalton Street, Manchester

Residence
1881              Claremont Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock
1895              138 Bennett Street
1900- 1921    17 Brighton Grove, Rusholme, Manchester.

Obituary    Builder Vol 120 18 March 1921 Page 340
Obituary    RIBA Journal Vol 28 19 March 1921 Page 308
Obituary    Manchester City News. Saturday March 5, 1921. Page 10 Col 6
Obituary    Manchester Guardian 28 February 19 page 9