Alister Clavering Hardy and the Alister Hardy Society Religious Experience Research Centre

Alister Clavering Hardy was born on February 10th 1896 at Nottingham. He was educated at Oundle School, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he received his MA and DSc.

During the First World War, Hardy held the rank of Lieutenant and Captain with the Northern Cyclist Battalion. In 1920, he was awarded both the Christopher Welch Biological Research Scholarship, and the Oxford Biological Scholarship at the Stazione Zoologica, Naples. The following year, he took up the post of Assistant Naturalist in the Fisheries Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. In 1924, he became Chief Zoologist to the Discovery Expedition, and remained in this post until 1928.

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