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Note.—He erected in the private grounds of Manston house a crematorium, and having disinterred the remains of his third wife and his mother, had them cremated there on the 8 and 9 Oct. 1882. These were the first cremations in England in modern times. Times 12 Oct. 1882 p. 4, 5 Dec. 1883 p. 7, 6 Dec. p. 7; Trans. Cremation Soc. 1885 p. 48 with view of the Crematorium.

HANKEY, Sir Frederick (3 son of John Hankey). Ensign 90 foot Sep. 1800; major of 50 foot 1808, of 2 Ceylon regiment 1809, of 15 foot 1815 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; sec. to order of St. Michael and St. George 17 Nov. 1818 to 20 June 1833; col. in the army 27 Nov. 1825, retired Aug. 1826; sec. to government of Malta 1825 to 1838; G.C.M.G. 4 May 1833 for his services in Malta, d. 7 Montagu sq. London 13 March 1855 aged 81.

HANKEY, Henry Aitchison (son of John Peter Hankey). b. 6 Oct. 1805; ensign 10 foot 26 June 1823; lieut. col. 1 dragoon guards 19 Jany. 1844 to 12 Nov. 1852; col. of 3 hussars 12 Jany. 1866, of 1 dragoon guards 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 7 Dec. 1871. d. Cliff house, Sandgate 24 June 1886.

HANKEY, William Alers. b. London 15 Aug. 1771; ed. at univ. of Edin.; head of the firm of Hankeys & Co. bankers, 7 Fenchurch st. London; assisted in proceedings of Religious tract society 1801–1808; one of founders and conductors of British and foreign Bible society 1804, treasurer 1801–32; A.I.C.E. 1820, treasurer 1820–45; gave evidence on slavery before house of commons 1833; author of Letters to Joseph Sturge relating to the Arcadia estate in Jamaica 1838. d. 5 Hyde park gardens, London 23 March 1859. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx, 134 (1861).

HANKINSON, Most Rev. Michael Adrian. b. Warrington 29 Sep. 1817; ordained priest at St. Edmund’s Benedictine college, Douay 1841, sub-prior there to 1851, prior 1854–63; bishop of Port Louis, Mauritius 1863 to death, during which time an epidemic carried off one-sixth of the population in 3 years. d. Douay 21 Sep. 1870. Gillow’s English Catholics (1888) iii, 111–2.

HANKINSON, Ven. Robert Edwards. b. 1798; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1850–63; archdeacon of Norwich 1857 to death; R. of North Creake, Norfolk 1863 to death; author of The Communion of believers, a course of lectures 1838; The call of Abraham, a Seatonian poem 1841. d. North Creake 27 March 1868 aged 70.

HANLON, Thomas, b. Manchester 1836; first appeared in public as a gymnast at the Colosseum, Liverpool; organised with his 5 brothers gymnastic performances that have made them famous in Europe and America; performed in U.S. of America 1858–62 and 1865–6, in California, South America and Europe 1862–4; performed in London and at the Exposition in Paris 1867; committed suicide at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5 April 1868.

HANMER, John Hanmer, 1 Baron (1 child of Thomas Hanmer 1781–1818, lieut.-col. Flintshire militia). b. 22 Dec. 1809; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded his grandfather as 3 baronet 1828; sheriff of Flintshire 1832; M.P. Shrewsbury 1832–37; M.P. Hull 1841–47; M.P. Flint district 1847–72; cr. Baron Hanmer of Hanmer and of Flint 1 Oct. 1872; author of Poems on various subjects 1836; Fra Cipolla and other poems 1839; Sonnets 1840; A memoir of the family and parish of Hanmer 1877. d. Knotley hall, Kent 8 March 1881. St. Paul’s, x, 368–77 (1872); I.L.N. lxi, 340, 342 (1872), portrait.

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.

HANNAY, Robert (son of James Hannay of Kirkcudbright). b. Lock-Bank, Castle-Douglas 1789; ed. at gram. sch. Annan and at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812; member of Speculative soc.; advocate in Scotland 1814; visited libraries of the Vatican and Stockholm; gave evidence on British museum before house of commons 1836; author of Address to Lord Hope on collecting and reporting decisions 1821; Defence of the usury laws 1823; History of the representation of England, drawn from records 1831. d. Kew, Surrey 2 Feb. 1868. Journal of Jurisprudence, xii, 218 (1869); Rep. on British Museum (1836) 418–26.

HANNINGTON, Right Rev. James (3 son of Charles Smith Hannington, warehouseman). b. Hurstpierpoint near Brighton 3 Sep. 1847; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1875, D.C.L. 1884; C. of Martinhoe and Trentishoe, Devon 1874–75; C. of St. George’s, Hurstpierpoint 1875–82, 1883; missionary in Central Africa 1882–3; bishop of Eastern equatorial Africa, consecrated at Lambeth 24 June 1884; author of Peril and adventure in Central Africa 1886; headed an expedition to the Lake Victoria Nyanza 23 July 1885, murdered by order of Mwanga king of U-Ganda 29 Oct. 1885. E. C. Dawson’s James Hannington (1887), portrait.

HANOVER, Ernest Augustus, King of (5 son of George III.) b. Kew 6 June 1771; ed. at Univ. of Gottingen 1786–90; K.G. 2 June 1786, installed 28 May 1801; commanded first brigade of Hanoverian cavalry 1794, lost his left eye in battle of Tournay 10 May 1794; created Earl of Armagh and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale 24 April 1799; badly wounded in his apartments St. James’s palace, London 31 May 1810 by his Italian valet Sellis who then cut his own throat; col. of 15 hussars 28 March 1801, of royal horse guards 22 Jany. 1827 to Nov. 1830; field marshal 26 Nov. 1813; served in campaigns of 1813–14; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H 12 Aug. 1815; K.P. 20 Aug. 1821; king of Hanover 20 June 1837, immediately revoked the constitution, granted a new constitution 1840. d. Herrenhausen palace, Hanover 18 Nov. 1851. C. A. Wilkinson’s Court of King Ernest 2 vols. (1886), portrait; Jesse’s Memoirs of life of George III. (1867) iii, 541–6; Sir N. H. Nicolas’s Orders of knighthood, iv, (1842), portrait; I.L.N. ii, 410 (1843), portrait; Annual Register (1833) 90–96.

HANOVER, George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus, King of (only son of preceding). b. Berlin 27 May 1819; G.C.H. 1830; at cricket match at Windsor struck himself in eye while swinging round a long purse and blinded himself 1833; K.G. 15 Aug. 1835; lost sight of his other eye by Dr. Karl Gräfe of Berlin cutting through the optic nerve while operating June 1840; succeeded his father as Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover 18 Nov. 1851, revoked constitution 1855; took part with Austria in Seven Weeks war 1866, Hanover incorporated with Prussia by royal decree 20 Sep. 1866; general in British army 27 May 1876; visited England 16 May to 17 June 1876. d. Rue de Presbourg, Paris 12 June 1878. bur. St. George’s chapel, Windsor 25 June. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, viii, 657–70 (1878); Almanac de Gotha (1853), portrait; Contemporary Review, xxxix, 646–64 (1881); Times 13–26 June 1878; I.L.N. 25 June 1853 p. 508, portrait.

HANSELL, Rev. Edward Halifax (4 son of Peter Hansell, V. of Worstead, Norfolk, d. 1841). b. St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, Norwich 6 Nov. 1814; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox. 1832; a demy of Magd. coll. 1832–47, fellow 1847–53; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838, B.D. 1847; tutor of Merton coll. 1845–9; V.P. of Magd. college 1852, fellow, tutor and mathematical lecturer and prælector of theology there 1852–6; R. of East Ilsley, Berks. 1865 to death; author of Notes on the first essay in Essays and Reviews 1850; The sorrows of the Cross 1880, 2 ed. 1881; ed. of Codex A. B. D. Z. et Sinaiticus. Nov. Test. Græce. 3 vols. 1864. d. East Ilsley 8 May 1884.

HANSLER, Sir John Jacob (1 son of John Jacob Hansler, Landaman of canton Zurich). b. St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 1788; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837 being the first knight created by Victoria; F.R.S. Jany. 1838; F.S.A.; D.L. for Essex. d. 3 H. The Albany, Piccadilly, London 28 April 1867. Dodd’s Peerage (1841) 167.

HANSOM, Joseph Aloysius (son of Henry Hansom of York, builder, who d. 16 Feb. 1854 aged 75). b. York 26 Oct. 1803; architect with Edward Welch at Halifax 1828, they became bankrupt 25 April 1834; managed the bank, coal mines and estates of Dempster Hemming of Caldecote hall, Warws.; registered a patent safety cab 23 Dec. 1834, sold his rights in it for £10,000 but money never paid, the principal of safety consisted in the suspended or cranked axle, the back seat for the driver was not in the original patent; founded The Builder newspaper, No. 1 published 31 Dec. 1842; architect at Preston 1847–54, at Edinburgh, at Clifton, at Ramsgate, in London 1862–79; built the spire of St. Walburge’s church, Preston 306 feet high, the loftiest in England since the Reformation; designed church at Arundel for Duke of Norfolk. d. 399 Fulham road, London 29 June 1882. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 115–20 (1888); I.L.N. lxxxi, 56 (1882), portrait.

HANSON, Alfred (eld. son of Joshua Flesher Hanson of Backwell, Somerset). b. 29 June 1816; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843; junior counsel to comrs. of customs, &c. 1853–65; revising barrister for London 1861–64; comptroller of legacy and succession duties at Somerset House, July 1865 to death; author of The Succession duty act, with decisions and notes 1865; The acts relating to probate legacy and succession duties, By A. H. 1870, 3 ed. 1876; The Revenue acts of 1880 and 1881 and Death duties 1883. d. 1 Upper Westbourne terrace, London 6 Jany. 1886.

HANSON, Sir Richard Davies. b. London 6 Dec. 1805; solicitor 3 Philpot lane, London 1828; editor of the Globe and a writer for the Morning Chronicle 1828; asst. comr. in enquiry on crown lands Canada 1838; crown prosecutor Wellington, N.Z. 1840–6; advocate general South Australia 1851; attorney general 1856–57; attorney general and leader of government 1857–60; chief justice of supreme court Nov. 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869; acting governor of S. Australia 1872–3; first chancellor of Adelaide univ. 1874; author of The Jesus of history 1869; Letters to and from Rome, By V. S. C. 1873; The apostle Paul and the preaching of Christianity 1875. d. Australia 4 March 1876. I.L.N. lv, 117 (1869), portrait.

HANSON, Louisa. Widow of James Hanson, captain R.N. who was lost in the Brazen sloop of war off Newhaven, April 1800 when all on board were lost except one man. d. Marl house, Bexley, Kent 2 July 1884 aged 103. 47 Rep. Registrar General (1886) p. lxxxi.

HANSON, Samuel (son of an orange merchant). b. 47 Botolph lane, Eastcheap, London, Sep. 1804; the leading dealer in the green and dried fruit trade from about 1833, retired 1871, the firm commenced business in 1747; a founder of Commercial Union Association 1862. d. Zurich, Switzerland 11 Feb. 1882. bur. Zurich. City Press 18 Feb. 1882 p. 4.

HANWELL, Joseph. b. about 1790; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 May 1806, captain 5 June 1835 to 10 April 1845 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 24 Aug. 1866. d. Belleville, Ontario, Canada 5 July 1873.

HARCOURT, Charles, stage name of Charles Parker Hillier. b. June 1838; made his first public appearance at St. James’ theatre, London 30 March 1863 as Robert Audley in Lady Audley’s Secret; lessee of Marylebone theatre 1871–2; played at most of the London theatres, one of best exponents of character of Mercutio; sec. of National dramatic academy Jany. 1880 to death; played Bashford in The World at Drury lane from 31 July 1880; while rehearsing at Haymarket theatre fell into the scene dock 18 Oct. 1880. d. Charing Cross hospital 27 Oct. 1880. Graphic 6 Nov. 1880 pp. 437, 438, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 6 Nov. 1880 p. 173, portrait; W. H. Rideing’s Dramatic Notes (1881) p. 37.

HARCOURT, Egerton Venables Vernon (youngest son of Most Rev. Edward Vernon Harcourt 1757–1814, archbishop of York). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 7 June 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–34; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; principal registrar of province of York 1842 to death; registrar of diocese of York 1842 to death; gave sum of £9,000 to archbishop of York to form a fund for augmentation of poor livings in Yorkshire, distributed Feb. 1891. d. Whitwell hall, Yorkshire 19 Oct. 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 663 (1883).

HARCOURT, Francis Vernon (10 child of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 7 Jany. 1801; ensign 1 foot guards 7 Sep. 1820, captain 1834 to 7 Aug. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1852–57; sheriff of Sussex 1867; author of Hints to young officers on military law and courts martial 1833. d. Buxted park near Uckfield, Sussex 23 April 1880.

HARCOURT, Frederick Edward Vernon (5 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. May 1790; entered navy 13 Feb. 1803, captain 7 June 1814, retired admiral 20 May 1862; author of The Protestant missionary’s catechism 1853; wrote Tracts for British Soc. for promoting principles of Reformation 1843 etc. d. 47 Cadogan place, London 30 April 1883.

HARCOURT, George Simon (1 son of John Simon Harcourt, M.P. Westbury). b. 5 Feb. 1807; ed. at Eton; matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1825; sheriff of Bucks. 1834; M.P. for Bucks. 1837–41. d. 35 St. George’s sq. Belgravia, London 24 Oct. 1871.

HARCOURT, George Granville Venables (1 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury 6 Aug. 1785; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1803–14; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1810; barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; M.P. for Lichfield 1806–30; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1831 to death; chancellor and commissary of diocese of York 1818 to death. d. Strawberry hill, Twickenham 19 Dec. 1861. bur. in family vault at Stanton Harcourt 27 Dec. Law Times xxxvii, 122, 154 (1861).

Note.—By royal license dated 15 January 1831 the Archbishop of York and his issue took name of Harcourt, but in April 1840 G. G. Harcourt sent a letter to the Times stating that his name was G. H. Vernon.

HARCOURT, Granville (6 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 26 July 1792; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1812–14; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816; barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 1815–20; contested Retford 1830; M.P. for Retford 1831–47; chancellor of province of York to death. d. Grove hall, Retford 8 Dec. 1879.

HARCOURT, Rev. Leveson Venables Vernon (2 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury 1788; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1806–13; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; R. of Beckenham, Kent 1835–51; chancellor of York cath. 30 May 1827 to death; author of The Doctrine of the deluge 2 vols. 1838; A remonstrance to the bishop of Exeter on his letter to Archbishop of Canterbury 1850; Lectures on the four gospels 3 vols. 1851; On connexion of chemistry with agriculture 1855. d. 29 Portland place, London 26 July 1860.

HARCOURT, Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon (8 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 25 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Aug. 1806; served in Egypt 1807, on coast of Spain 1809, in West Indies 1824–7; captain 7 Aug. 1827; surveyed coast of Central America and California 1834–6; V.A. on h.p. 4 June 1861; sheriff of Yorkshire 1848; built and endowed Healey ch. Yorkshire 1849. d. Swinton park, Yorkshire 14 Aug. 1863. Leeds Mercury 17 Aug. 1863 p. 3.

HARCOURT, Rev. William Venables Vernon (4 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury, June 1789; served in R.N. on West India station 5 years; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1807–15; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; V. of Bishopsthorpe, Yorks. 1814–24; R. of Etton, Yorks. 1816; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorks. 1816–8; preb. of North Newbald, York 6 Aug. 1821 to death; R. of Whildrake 1824–33; R. of Bolton Percy 1837–65; president Yorkshire Philos. soc. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.R.S. 1824; founder and general sec. of British Assoc. 1831, president 1839; founder of Yorkshire sch. for the blind and Castle Howard reformatory; studied the action of heat on inorganic bodies; author of Symmetrical psalmody or portions of psalms translated into metrical stanzas 1855; What is truth? A poetical dialogue 1869; Sermons 1873. d. Nuneham near Oxford 1 April 1871. Quarterly Journal of geol. soc. xxviii, 40 (1872).

HARDEN, John William (youngest son of John Harden of Brathay hall, Westmoreland, d. 1847). b. 11 Dec. 1809; ed. at gr. sch. Manchester and Univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1835; comr. of bankruptcy in Cheshire and North Wales; a revising barrister on northern circuit 1841; judge of county courts, circuit No. 7 (Lancashire) 1847 to death; author of Scripture proofs on leading doctrines of the Gospel, By J. W. H. 1873; Questions on the leading doctrines of the Gospel 1873. d. Bournemouth 16 April 1875.

HARDIMAN, James. b. Westport, co. Mayo Feb. 1782; admitted solicitor 1814; sub-commissioner of the Irish records 1830; member of R. Irish Academy and of Iberno-Celtic soc.; librarian to Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; published The history of the town and county of Galway 1820; Irish minstrelsy, or bardic remains of Ireland 2 vols. 1831; edited R. O’Flaherty’s West Connaught 1846. d. Galway 13 Nov. 1855.

HARDING, Anne Raikes. b. 1780; author of Correction: a novel 3 vols. 1818; Decision: a tale 3 vols. 1819; The Refugees: an Irish tale 3 vols. 1822; Realities 4 vols. 1825; Dissipation: a novel 4 vols. 1827; Experience: a tale for all ages 4 vols. 1828; An epitome of universal history 1848; Sketches of the Highlands 18—and other works all published anonymously; contributed to reviews and periodicals. (m. Thomas Harding of Bristol, merchant). d. at residence of her son in law Rev. William Kynaston Groves, Boulogne 27 April 1858. G.M. June 1858 p. 684.

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