HANMER, Henry (6 child of Sir Thomas Hanmer, d. 1828). b. 30 April 1789; cornet royal horse guards 6 Oct. 1808, major 1826 to 4 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Aylesbury 1832–36; sheriff of Bucks. 1854; K.H. 1837. d. Stockgrove near Leighton Buzzard 2 Feb. 1868.
HANN, James (son of a colliery smith). b. Washington, co. Durham 1799; engineer in a Tyne towing vessel; kept schools at Gateshead and at Friar’s Green near Newcastle; accountant in office of Isaac Dodds, Gateshead; calculator in Nautical almanac office; writing master King’s coll. sch. London and then mathematical master there to death; A.I.C.E. 13 June 1843; author of Mathematics for practical men 1833; A short treatise on the steam engine 1847; Examples on the integral calculus 1850 and other works. d. King’s coll. hospital, London 17 Aug. 1856.
HANNA, Rev. Samuel, b. Kellswater near Ballymena, co. Antrim 1772; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1789, D.D. 1818; presbyterian minister, Drumbo, co. Down 1795 and at Rosemary st. Belfast 1799 to death; professor of divinity and ch. history at Assembly’s coll. Belfast 1817; moderator of synod of Ulster 1809; first moderator of the general presbyterian assembly 1840; author of single sermons and pamphlets, d. at residence of his son in law Rev. Dr. Denham, James st. Londonderry 23 April 1852. bur. Belfast 30 April, portrait in hall of Assembly’s coll. Belfast. Belfast News Letter 26 April 1852 p. 2.
HANNA, Rev. William (son of preceding). b. Belfast 26 Nov. 1808; ed. at Glasgow univ., LLD. 1852, and at Edin. univ., D.D. 1864; presbyterian minister East Kilbride near Glasgow 1835 and at Skirling, Peebleshire 1837–43; minister of Free ch. Skirling 1843–50; colleague of Rev. Thos. Guthrie in St. John’s Free ch. Edin. 1850–66; ed. of North British Review; author of Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. 4 vols. 1849–52; The Posthumous works of Thomas Chalmers 9 vols. 1847; Last days of our Lord’s passion 1862 which circulated 50,000 copies, and many other works. d. 77 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 24 May 1882. Guardian, May 1882 p. 760; Scott’s Fasti, vol. i, pt. i, p. 229.
HANNAH, Rev. John (3 son of a small coal dealer). b. Lincoln 3 Nov. 1792; appointed Wesleyan Methodist minister 1814; went to America as representative to the Conferences 1824 and 1856; theological tutor at theological training institutions at Hoxton and Stoke Newington 1834–42; sec. of Conference 1840–2, 1854–8, president 1842 and 1851; theological tutor at Didsbury, Yorkshire 1843 to death; author of Memoirs of Rev. D. Stowe 1828; Documents relating to British and Canadian conferences 1860 and other works. d. Didsbury 29 Dec 1867. Introductory Lectures on Theology, By J. Hannah (1875) with Memoir by W. B. Pope pp. 1–69; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1876) 118–23; I.L.N. i, 200 (1842), portrait.
HANNAH, Ven. John (1 son of the preceding). b. Lincoln 16 July 1818; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox. 1837; Lincoln scholar of Corpus Christi 1837–40, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, D.C.L. 1853; fellow of Lincoln 1840–4; Bampton lecturer 1863; rector of Edinburgh academy 1847–52; warden of Trinity coll. Glenalmond, Perth 1854–70; V. of Brighton 1870 to Dec. 1887 which he divided into 11 ecclesiastical districts; prebendary of Chichester 1874–76; archdeacon of Lewes 1876 to death; editor of Poems and psalms by H. King, bishop of Chichester 1843; Poems by Sir H. Wotton and Sir W. Raleigh 1845, 2 ed. 1875; author of Discourse on the fall and its result 1857 and other books. d. Brighton vicarage 1 June 1888. Times 2 June 1888 p. 13, col. 6.
HANNAN, John. b. St. Giles’s, London 29 Sep. 1817; a pugilist known as the Drury lane Irishman; beat Dan Dismore 6 June 1837, £25 a side; beaten by Tom Maley 30 Aug. 1838, £25 a side; beat John Walker 1 Nov. 1838, £25 a side, beat him again 2 April 1839 in 3 hours and 48 minutes, £50 a side; beaten by Byng Stocks 11 June 1839, £25 a side; beat Dick Forsey 14 April 1840, £25 a side; fought John Broome known as Young Ducrow £500 a side at New park farm near Bicester 26 Jany. 1841 when Broome won after 47 rounds in 79 minutes, the amount fought for was the largest since Ward and Cannon fought 1825. d. 7 King st. Soho, London 18 Oct. 1857. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring (1888) 101–111.
HANNAY, Rev. Alexander. b. Kirkcudbright 27 Feb. 1822; ed. at Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Yale univ. 1881; congregational minister Prince’s st. ch. Dundee 1846 to 1862; minister City road ch. London 1862–6, at West Croydon 1866–70; sec. Colonial missionary soc.; sec. Congregational union of England and Wales 10 May 1870 to death; author of The claims of the temperance movement on the churches 1868; How is England to be saved? An appeal to young men 1877. d. Lincluden, Sunnyside road, Hornsey Rise 12 Nov. 1890. I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 678, portrait.
HANNAY, James (1 son of David Hannay 1794–1864, banker, author of Ned Allen). b. Dumfries 17 Feb. 1827; midshipman R.N. 1840–45; reporter on Morning Chronicle 1846; contributed to Pasquin a comic paper 1847; contested Dumfries burghs May 1857; editor of Edinburgh Evening Courant 1860–64; consul at Barcelona 13 July 1868 to death; author of King Dobbs, Sketches in Ultramarine 1849; Blackwood v. Carlyle: a vindication, by a Carlylian 1850; Singleton Fontenoy, R.N. 3 vols. 1850; Satires and satirists: six lectures 1854; Sand and shells 1854 which contains notices of his naval career; Eustace Conyers 3 vols. 1855; Three hundred years of a Norman house, the barons of Gournay 1867; Studies on Thackeray 1869. d. Putchet, Barcelona 9 Jany. 1873. Temple Bar, xxxviii, 89–94 (1873), xlix, 234–47 (1877); The Critic xvii, 629 (1858), portrait.
Note.—He is described under the name of Eglinton Conyers in The Club and the Drawing Room by Cecil Hay 2 vols. 1870.