Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised as one of the firm of Harding & Hewer, later Harding, Hewer & Calthorp, at several addresses in London: 6 Mylne Street, Myddelton Square; 13 Spencer Street, Northampton Square; and Sandford House, Highbury New Park, where he acted as Surgeon to the Finsbury Assurance Association and the Watchmakers' Benevolent Society, and Examining Surgeon to the Infant Orphans' Asylum and to the Camberwell Schools. He also had country addresses: Mount Sandford, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, and Ulverstone House, Uckfield, Sussex. He died at Eagle House, Hornsey, on December 24th, 1883. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: Harding contributed a number of papers to the *Lond. Med. Gaz*.