Personal Life
In 1749 he married Mary Tate and in 1759, following his first wife's death, he married Catharine Stanyan. The couple had three sons and two daughters. Sir Charles Hardy died at Spithead. He bequeathed £3000 to each of the sons and £4000 to each daughter, as well as leaving his estate at Rawlins, Oxfordshire, to his eldest son Temple Hardy. By Catharine's death in 1801, only Temple survived of the three sons. Hardy's brothe Josiah was a merchant and the Governor of New Jersey from 1761-63.
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