Educated at St Paul’s College Cheltenham where he played tennis, cricket and football before going to King’s College, Cambridge from where he obtained a BA and BSc, obtaining his degree with honours in Science. He served as a Lieutenant with the Durham Light Infantry during World War I, where he served in France for five months and suffered injuries but subsequently recovered and went on to win a football Blue at Cambridge in 1919. The following year he gained selection for the Great Britain squad to go to the Olympic Games in Belgium. Harding later became a teacher at Oundle School before being appointed headmaster at King James’ Grammar School in Bishop Auckland where he died suddenly in 1925 of a heart attack at the age of 32 which, it was believed, was allied to the injuries he sustained during the War
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