HAMPTON, John Somerset Pakington, 1 Baron (younger son of Wm. Russell of Powick court, Worcs., who d. 9 Dec. 1812). b. Powick court 20 Feb. 1799; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., D.C.L. 7 June 1853; assumed name of Pakington 1830; chairman of Worcs. quarter sessions 1834–54; M.P. for Droitwich 1837–74; sec. of state for the colonies 27 Feb. to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and June 1866 to March 1867; sec. of state for war 8 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; first civil service commissioner Nov. 1875; baronet 13 July 1846; G.C.B. 15 June 1859; created Baron Hampton of Hampton Lovett and of Westwood, co. Worcester 6 March 1874. d. 9 Eaton sq. London 9 April 1880. bur. in family mausoleum Hampton Lovett church, Worcs. 15 April. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, second series 1859, portrait; The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; I.L.N. xx, 321 (1852), xxi, 237 (1852), portrait.
HAMPTON, Richard. b. Nancekuke down, Illogan, Cornwall 4 April 1782; a worker at a stamping mill; first preached at Redruth 1811; itinerated in Devon and Cornwall as a Wesleyan, known as the Cornish pilgrim preacher 1813–58. d. Porth Towan, Illogan 2 April 1858. Foolish Dick, an autobiography of Richard Hampton 1873, portrait.
HAMPTON, William Philip. b. 21 Sep. 1810; ensign 30 Bengal N.I. 4 Nov. 1828, commandant 2 Bengal N.I. 1 Jany. 1864 to 1 March 1870; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 65 Haverstock hill, London 23 Jany. 1881.
HANBURY, Benjamin. b. Wolverhampton 13 May 1778; in Bank of England 1803–59; deacon of Congregational ch. Union st. London 1819–57; treasurer of Congregational Union 1831 to death; author of An historical research concerning the Congregational church in England 1820; Historical memorials relating to the Independents 3 vols. 1839–44; edited Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity 3 vols. 1830. d. 16 Gloucester villas, Brixton, Surrey 12 Jany. 1864. Evangelical Mag. 1864 p. 166.
HANBURY, Daniel (1 son of Daniel Bell Hanbury of firm of Allen and Hanbury, chemists, Plough court, Lombard st. London). b. London 11 Sep. 1825; partner in firm of Allen and Hanbury to 1870; student at Pharmaceutical soc. 1844, member 1857, examiner 1860–72; F.L.S. 1855, treasurer to death; F. Chem. soc. 21 Jany. 1858, and F.R. Micros. soc. 1867; F.R.S. 6 June 1867, member of council 1872–5; studied the materia medica of the Chinese; visited Greece and the Holy Land 1860; the cucurbitaceous genus Hanburya named after him 1870; author with professor Friedrich A. Flückiger of Pharmacographia 1874. d. Clapham common, Surrey 24 March 1875. Science papers, ed. by J. Ince 1876, memoir pp. 3–40, portrait; Proc. of Royal soc. xxiv, 2–3 (1876); Nature, xi, 428 (1875).
HANBURY, Daniel Bell (1 son of Capel Hanbury). b. 8 Feb. 1794; with Allen and Hanbury 1808, partner, retired 1868; an originator of Pharmaceutical soc. 1841, treasurer 1852–67; assisted to make index for Pharmacographia 1874. d. Hollywood, Clapham common 12 Feb. 1882. Pharmaceutical Journal, xii, 698 (1881–82).
HANBURY, Sir John (2 son of Wm. Hanbury of Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire). b. Kelmarsh 1782; ed. at Eton; ensign 58 foot 20 July 1799; served in Egypt 1801, in Peninsula 1808–9, 1813–4, in Portugal 1826–7; major grenadier guards 25 July 1821 to 22 July 1830; colonel 99 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.H. and K.B. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 15 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 7 June 1863.
HANBURY, Robert (2 son of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex 1765–1852). b. 2 July 1796; clerk with Truman, Buxton & Co. brewers 1815, partner 1820, managing partner of business in London and at Burton on Trent; sheriff of Herts. 1854; had large gardens and conservatories at Poles near Ware; built and endowed Thundridge ch. Herts. 184-and Christ Church, Ware 1858. d. Poles, Ware 20 Jany. 1884. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette 16 Jany. 1875 pp. 64, 67, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year Book 1876 pp. 83–5, portrait.
HANBURY, Robert Culling (1 son of the preceding). b. London 19 March 1823; partner in Truman, Hanbury and Co. brewers, London; M.P. for Middlesex 29 April 1857 to death. d. 10 Upper Grosvenor st. London 29 March 1867. bur. in churchyard of Thundridge, Herts. I.L.N. xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.
HANCE, Henry Fletcher. b. Old Brompton, London 4 Aug. 1827; entered Hong-kong C.S. 1 Sep. 1844; 4 assistant in superintendency of trade at Hong-kong 1 May 1854, 1 assistant 1857; vice consul at Whampoa near Canton 1861–78; consul Canton 1878, 1881, 1883; acting consul at Amoy, May 1886; spent his life in study of botany of China. d. Amoy 22 June 1886, his herbarium 22,000 species offered to British Museum.