HACKETT, Sir William Bartholomew (son of Bartholomew Hackett of Carrigaline, co. Cork). b. Carrigaline 1800; a merchant at Cork, the largest manufacturer of leather in Ireland; mayor of Cork 1852; knighted by Earl of Eglinton at opening of Irish National Exhibition at Cork 10 June 1852. d. 28 Jany. 1872.
HACKMAN, Rev. Alfred (son of Thomas Hackman, vestry clerk of Fulham, Middlesex). b. Fulham 8 April 1811; servitor at Ch. Ch. Ox. 25 Oct. 1832, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, chaplain Ch. Ch. 1837–73, precentor 1841–73; clerk Bodleian Lib. 1837, sub-librarian 1862–73; V. of Cowley, Oxon. 1842–44; V. of St. Paul’s, Oxford 1844–71; author of A catalogue of the collection of the Tanner MSS. 1860. d. Thames Ditton, Surrey 18 Sep. 1874.
HADDAN, Rev. Arthur West (2 son of Thomas Haddan, solicitor, d. 1844 aged 63). b. Woodford, Essex 31 Aug. 1816; ed. at Brasn. coll. Ox.; scholar of Trin. coll. 1835, fellow 1839, tutor 1842–57, Johnson theol. scholar 1839; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1847; C. of St. Mary the Virgin, Ox. 1841–42; contributed to Guardian 1846 to death; one of secretaries to W. E. Gladstone’s committee at Oxford elections 1847–65; R. of Barton on the Heath, Warws. 1857 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 1870 to death; author in conjunction with Dr. W. Stubbs of Councils and ecclesiastical documents 3 vols. 1869–71; for the Anglo-Catholic lib. he edited The works of John Bramhall, Archbp. of Armagh 5 vols. 1842–5 and The Theological works of Herbert Thorndike 6 vols. 1844–56. d. Barton 8 Feb. 1873. Remains of Rev. A. W. Haddan, ed. by A. P. Forbes, Bp. of Brechin (1876).
HADDAN, Thomas Henry (brother of the preceding). b. in city of London 1814; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; took a double first 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.C.L. 1844; fellow of Ex. coll. 1837–43; Eldon scholar 1840; barrister I.T. 11 June 1841, equity draftsman and conveyancer; Vinerian fellow Oxf. univ. 1847; Guardian newspaper projected in his chambers 6 New sq., first number issued 21 Jany. 1846, editor for a short time; lectured on jurisdiction of court of chancery 1862; author of Remarks on legal education 1848. d. Vichy, France 5 Sept. 1873, body removed to Highgate cemet. Law Times, lv, 384–5 (1873) lvi, 44.
HADDINGTON, Thomas Hamilton, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 Earl of Haddington 1753–1828). b. Edinburgh 21 June 1780; ed. at Edin. univ. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1815; known as Lord Binning 1780–1826; M.P. St. Germans 1802–6; M.P. Cockermouth Jany. to April 1807; M.P. Callington May 1807–1812; P.C. 29 July 1814; commissioner for management of affairs of India 1814–22; M.P. Michael 1814–18; M.P. for Rochester 1818–26; M.P. Yarmouth, June to Aug. 1826; cr. Baron Melros of Tynningham 24 July 1827; succeeded to earldom 17 March 1828; lord lieut. of Ireland 29 Dec. 1834 to 23 April 1835; received £30,674 1s. 8d. for surrender of office of keeper of Holyrood park 1843; first lord of the admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 Jany. 1846; lord privy seal 21 Jany. to 6 July 1846; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853. d. Tynningham house, Haddingtonshire 1 Dec. 1858. Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2nd series (1836–42), portrait.
HADFIELD, Charles (son of Charles Hadfield). b. Glossop, Derbyshire 14 Oct. 1821; house painter at Manchester; edited Weekly Wages 1861 five numbers; on staff of Newcastle Chronicle and lecturer for Northern Reform union 1861; editor of Manchester City News 1865–7, of Warrington Examiner and of Salford Weekly News 1880–3; author of two prize essays on Mechanics’ institutions and The Homes of the working classes 1850, 1857. d. 3 Chester road, Stretford, Manchester 4 June 1884. Manchester City News 7, 14 June 1884.
HADFIELD, Elizabeth (2 dau. of Peter Taylor of Hollingwood near Manchester). A Friend; author of Sprays from the Hedgerows 1850, with portrait; Poetic weeds by E. H. 1850. (m. George Hadfield), she d. Wetheral near Carlisle 23 March 1861 aged 43.
HADFIELD, George (son of Robert Hadfield, merchant). b. Sheffield 28 Dec. 1787; attorney at Manchester 1810–53; contested Bradford 1835; a founder of Anti-corn-law league 1841; principal promoter of the litigation as to Lady Hewley’s charities 1833–42; M.P. for Sheffield 1852–74; helped in passing Common law procedure act 1854; author of the Qualification for offices abolition act 1866; author of The expediency of relieving the bishops from attendance in parliament 1870. d. Conyngham road, Victoria park, Manchester 21 April 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 June 1879. James Griffin’s Memories of the past (1883) 264–311.
HADFIELD, Matthew Ellison (1 son of Joseph Hadfield of Lees hall, Glossop, Derbyshire). b. Lees hall 8 Sep. 1812; architect Sheffield 1838 to death; contributed to revival of mediæval and Gothic architecture; designed and built many churches etc. in Leeds and neighbourhood; served 4 Dukes of Norfolk in succession; F.R.I.B.A. May 1847; pres. of Sheffield sch. of art 1878–80. d. Knowle house, Sheffield 9 March 1885. J. Gillow’s English Catholics (1887) iii, 79–82.
HADFIELD, William, b. 1806; first sec. of Buenos Ayres great southern railway; sec. South American steam navigation co.; merchant at Liverpool; bankrupt 6 Nov. 1847; founded in London The South American Journal and Brazil and River Plate Mail 7 Nov. 1863, editor to death; author of Brazil, The River Plate and the Falkland islands 1854. d. London 14 Aug. 1887.