Henry Robert Dugdale Hardy (born 15 March 1949) is a British academic, author and editor. Career Hardy was born in London in 1949 and educated at Lancing College, where his contemporaries included Christopher Hampton and Tim Rice. He went on to study classics, and then philosophy and psychology, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and philosophy at Wolfson College, Oxford, where he wrote a BPhil thesis in the philosophy of mind entitled ‘Subjective Experiences’, later expanded into a doctoral thesis. It was at Wolfson that Hardy met Wolfson’s then President, Isaiah Berlin. Hardy's first edited volume was a collection of writings by Arnold Mallinson, an eccentric Oxford clergyman with whom he lodged for seven years. He published this work under his own imprint (Robert Dugdale). While still a student, Hardy also composed a number of musical pieces, which he published many years later as Tunes: Collected Musical Juvenilia (2003). In addition to publishing under the pseudonym Robert Dugdale from 1974 to 2005, Hardy worked for thirteen years (1977–90) as an editor at Oxford University Press, first editing and commissioning in the General Books Department, then commissioning academic books as Senior Editor, Political and Social Studies. At OUP in 1980, inspired by Isaiah Berlin's insistence on the crucial role of individual thinkers in the history of ideas, he founded the Past Masters series (now absorbed into the Very Short Introductions series). His wish to publish a work of popular philosophy, Making Names, by Andrew Malcolm, was not endorsed by OUP. This was the subject of Malcolm's landmark legal action against OUP for breach of contract. Hardy's account of this episode is told in his review of Malcolm’s book about the case. Hardy has been a Fellow of Wolfson College since 1990 (an Honorary Fellow since 2015). At Wolfson he met Bryan Magee, came to know him well, and became his executor. When Magee died in 2019, he organised a celebration of his life at Keble College, Oxford (where Magee was an undergraduate), which was recorded on film. A shortened version of the film may be viewed online. Isaiah Berlin Isaiah Berlin, though a towering intellectual figure at the time of his death, was at one stage not regarded as having published very extensively. Hardy's research revealed that Berlin had published well over 150 pieces by the late 1970s. Hardy's editing of Berlin's essays made Berlin's most important work widely available. In 1990