William Duff McHardy was born in Cullen, Aberdeenshire, on 26 May 1911, son of William D. McHardy, engineer. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen, MA 1932, BD 1935 and was awarded an honorary DD in 1958. After further study in Edinburgh and Oxford, he was appointed Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of London, 1948 - 1960, and Regius Professor of Hebrew at Christ Church, Oxford, 1960 - 1978. He worked on the translators' panel of The New English Bible. New Testament, ed. by C. H. Dodd, (Oxford and Cambridge: Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1961) and The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, ed. by C. H. Dodd, (Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1970); and in 1983 was appointed director of revision and chairman of the new translators' panel of the The Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha, ed. by W.D. McHardy, (Oxford and Cambridge: Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1989). In 1990 he was awarded the CBE.
For further details see obituary in Aberdeen University Review, 59 (Spring 2001), 455. See also Aberdeen University Review, 37, (1957 - 1958), 393; and John Mackintosh, Roll of the Graduates of the University of Aberdeen, 1926-1955, with Supplement 1860-1925 (Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, 1960)
From the guide to the Papers of Rev. Professor W.D. McHardy (1911 - 2000), CBE, Hebrew scholar, 19th c - 20th c, (University of Aberdeen)
