Richard Neville Hadcock (1895-1980) FRSAFRHistS, was a historian whose main area of study was ecclesiastical buildings, particularly mediaeval monastic buildings, in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. His work in this field also included the drawing up of maps of the locations of the various sites.
Hadcock was born in 1895 in Newcastle upon Tyne.[1] His father, Sir Albert George Hadcock (1861-1936), was a distinguished engineer, who was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and appointed Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1918.[2] Hadcock senior married Sibylla Rideout in 1889, the marriage registered at Marylebone, London.[3]
Hadcock was educated at Marlborough College and, at the end of his time there, he was due to go up to Oxford University. The outbreak of war in 1914 changed his plans and he enlisted in the army and saw fighting on the Western Front.[4][5] During the war he suffered from the effects of gas and other illnesses. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in 1917 and saw service through to 1918 when he as invalided out of the Army.[6]
In the summer of 1926 Hadcock married Jeanne Josephine La Pajolec, the marriage registered in Hexham, Northumberland. The couple had one daughter, Josephine Belfrage (1927-2014), and three sons, Richard Neville (1928-2005),[7] Michael (1930-2018) and George (1930-2007).[3]
Working life
Engaging in private study after the war Hadcock produced a body of work on ecclesiastical buildings of Great Britain and the Irish Republic. His collaboration with Dom David Knowles and Father Aubrey Gwynne, Society of Jesuits, as well as his own writings and map making, made a considerable contribution to the study of monasticism in the mediaeval period.[8] Hadcock's involvement with Father Gwynne in the writing of 'Mediaeval Houses: Ireland' is revealed in correspondence between the two and suggests that Hadcock's involvement was significant.[9]
Photographs attributed to Hadcock appear in the Conway Library collection[10] at the Courtauld Institute of Art. This collection of glass and film negatives, as well as prints, comprises mainly ecclesiastical and secular architecture. It is in the process of being digitised as part of the wider 'Courtauld Connects' project.[11]
Hadcock died in 1980, his death registered in the Wokingham District, Berkshire.[3]
Publications
As author
Hadcock, Richard Neville (2019). "A map of mediaeval Northumberland and Durham". Archaeologia Aeliana. 16. doi:10.5284/1060019.
Hadcock, R.N. (1950). Map of Monastic Britain (North Sheet). Chessington, Director General of the Ordnance Survey
Hadcock, R.N. (1950). Map of Monastic Britain (South Sheet). Chessington, Director General of the Ordnance Survey
Hadcock, R.N. (1936). Tynemouth Castle and Priory, Northumberland. London, H.M. Office of Works, Department of Ancient Buildings and Monuments, Official Guides. British Library General Reference Collection B.S. 46/2. (72.)
Hadcock, R.N. (1947). Newbury Rural District Guide. London, Century Press. British Library General Reference Collection W.P. 1324/89
Hadcock, R.N. (1947). The Official Guide to Bradfield Rural District, London, Century Press. British Library General Reference Collection W.P. 1324/53
Hadcock, R.N., Maps of Scotland Showing Mediaeval Religious Houses in Easson D.E. (1957) Mediaeval Religious Houses: Scotland. The British Library Cartographic Items 4787.bb.9.
Hadcock, R.N. (1979) The Story of Newbury. Newbury, Countryside Books. British Library General Collection X.700/26262
As Contributor
Gwynne, A. (1970) Mediaval Houses: Ireland: with an appendix to early sites. London, Longman. British Library General Collection X.100/8037
Cowan, Ian B. (1976) Mediaeval Religious Houses: Scotland: with an appendix on the houses on the Isle of Man. London, Longman. British Library General Reference Collection X.200/20409
Knowles, David (1953) Mediaeval Religious Houses: England and Wales. London, Longman. British Library General Reference Section X200/6347
Burnham Abbey was a house of Augustinian canonesses regular near Burnham in Buckinghamshire, England. It was founded in 1266 by Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall. The abbey of St Mary consisted of around twenty nuns at the outset, but was never wealthy and by the time of its dissolution in 1539 there were only ten.
The Augustinian Friary of the Most Holy Trinity was an Augustinian Roman Catholic Priory, founded c. 1259, by the family of Talbot on the south bank of the river, in what is now Crow Street, Dublin. At the time the priory was built, it was just outside the city walls. The Friary most likely followed the design of the parent priory Clare Priory in the town of Clare, Suffolk (England). The Friary was suppressed in 1540 when it was described as a "church with belfry, a hall and dormitory". The friars continued to operate in secret within the city. and there are several mentions of them in the city archives until the late 1700s when they consecrated a new church.
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