HANE, JAMES; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1665, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1665, scholar 1666, matr. 1668; BA 1668/9; ordained deacon 31 Jan 1670/1, priest 1 Feb 1670/1 (both Lincoln).
HANMER, KENYON JAMES, brother of John Hanmer (qv); b. 5 Aug 1829; adm. 27 May 1842 (Benthall's); QS 1844; left 1848; Jesus Coll. Cambridge; LLB 1855; d. 7 Sep 1858.
HANNES, SIR EDWARD, son of Edward Hannes, Devizes, Wilts.; b.; adm.; KS 1678; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1682, matr. Dec 1682, aged 18, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1682 – Dec 1693, Faculty Student 23 Dec 1693 – c. 16 Mar 1699; BA 1686; MA 1689; MB 23 Jan 1691/2; MD 1695; Reader in Chemistry 1690; attended William, Duke of Gloucester 1700; Physician to Queen Anne 9 Jul 1702 – Nov 1709; knighted 29 Jul 1705; a collection of school exercises by him is in Cambridge Univ. Library; donor of the silver “poculum” for the use of the KSS; bequeathed £1000 towards the erection of the new Dormitory, and £1000 towards the completion of Peckwater Quadrangle, Christ Church; m. 1st, 1 Oct 1698 Anne, dau. of John Packer, Shellingford, Berks.; m. 2nd, 15 Jun 1701 Anne, widow of Henry Bull, of Oxford and of Shapwick, Somerset, and dau. of John Luffe DM, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford; d. 22 Jul 1710. DNB.
By his will dated 5 May 1708 (proved 21 Jul 1710), he left £1000 to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster upon trust that the same should be laid out in erecting a building for the King’s Scholars for the time being in Westminster School in such place as should be directed by the Dean and Chapter. He desired that Sir Christopher Wren (qv) and Henry Aldrich (qv), Dean of Christ Church, should be consulted “in contriveing and designeing” the building. He also gave the two-handled silver Poculum which is still used in College Hall on great occasions (this was lost at some point, and repurchased for the School in 1952).
HANWAY, JOHN, son of William Hanway, Westminster, and Mary, dau. of Sir Jonas Moore, Surveyor-Gen. of the Ordnance; bapt. St. John the Evangelist, Dublin 25 Oct 1670 (IGI) (?); adm.; KS 1686; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1690, adm. pens. 28 Jun 1690, aged 18, scholar 24 May 1691; BA 1693/4; “was for more than thirty years in the army”; Maj. (MS note in copy of Welch); served under Duke of Marlborough in Flanders, and under Earl of Peterborough in Spain; translated first fifty Psalms into Latin elegiacs 1723; author, Translations and Poems, 1730; m. 31 Jul 1699 Rebecca Bickerton, widow; d. 26 Nov 1736.
HARCOURT, CHARLES GEORGE, ninth son of Hon. Edward Harcourt (qv); b. 14 Nov 1798; adm. Mich. 1809; KS 1811; Capt. of the School 1815; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1816, matr. 25 May 1816, Westminster Student; BA 1820; MA 1822; ordained deacon 18 Oct 1822, priest 17 Nov 1822 (both York); Rector of Rothbury, Northumberland, from 1822; Rector of Headon, Notts., 18 Jun 1830 – res Jun 1838; Prebendary of Southwell from 4 Jun 1830 and of Carlisle from 13 Nov 1837; assumed surname of Harcourt in lieu of Venables-Vernon; d. 10 Dec 1870.
HARCOURT, EGERTON, eleventh son of Hon. Edward Harcourt (qv); b. 12 May 1803; adm. 30 Mar 1815; KS (Capt. ) 1816; Capt. of the School 1820; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1821, matr. 2 Jun 1821, Westminster Student (still 1829); 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1824; BA 1825; MA 1828; called to bar, Inner Temple 25 Jun 1830; assumed surname of Harcourt in lieu of Venables-Vernon; Principal Registrar, Province and Dioces of York, from 1842; Busby Trustee 2 May 1857; m. 8 Dec 1859 Laura Emma, youngest dau. of Sir William Mordaunt Sturt Milner, Bart.; d. 19 Oct 1883.
HARCOURT, GEORGE GRANVILLE, eldest son of Hon. Edward Harcourt (qv); b. 6 Aug 1785; adm. 14 Mar 1796 (Clapham); KS (Capt. ) 1798; Capt. of the School 1802; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1803, matr. 23 May 1803, Westminster Student; BA 1808; MA 1810; MP Lichfield 1806-31, Oxfordshire from 1831; “Father” of House of Commons; assumed surname of Harcourt in lieu of Venables-Vernon 15 Jan 1831; of Stanton Harcourt and Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire; DL JP Oxfordshire; m. 1st, 27 Mar 1815 Lady Elizabeth Bingham, eldest dau. of Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (qv); m. 2nd, 30 Sep 1847 Frances Elizabeth, Countess Waldegrave, widow of John James Waldegrave, Navestock, Essex, and of George Edward Waldegrave, 7th Earl Waldegrave, dau. of John Braham, tenor singer; d. 19 Dec 1861.
HARCOURT, JOHN, son of Rev. James Harcourt DD, Prebendary of Bristol and Vicar of All Saints, Bristol, Somerset, and Sarah, dau. of John Price; bapt. Bristol Cathedral 13 May 1717; adm. Mar 1727/8; KS (aged 14) 1731; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1736, matr. 25 Jun 1736, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1736 – res 10 Apr 1740; succeeded under will of uncle Charles Harcourt to Dan-y-Parc estate, Llangattock, Breconshire 1748; High Sheriff, Breconshire 1756; m. 5 Jul 1759 Letitia Sarah Maria, dau. of George Milborne, Wonastow, Monmouthshire; d. 2 Oct 1781 (M. I. Cheltenham, Gloucs. ).
HARCOURT, LEVESON, third son of Hon. Edward Harcourt (qv); bapt. 9 Jun 1788; adm. 11 Sep 1798 (Clapham); KS (aged 12) 1801; Capt. of the School 1805; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1806, matr. 17 May 1806; BA 1810; MA 1812 (incorp. Cambridge 1854); ordained deacon 8 Mar 1812, priest 2 Aug 1812 (both York); Vicar of Sutton in the Forest, Yorks., 7 Aug 1812; Chancellor of York from 30 May 1827; Rector of Beckenham, Kent 29 May 1835 –8; assumed surname of Harcourt in lieu of Venables-Vernon 15 Jan 1831; author, The Doctrine of the Deluge, 1838, and other works; m. 19 Aug 1815 Hon. Caroline Mary Peachey, eldest dau. of John Peachey, 2nd Baron Selsey; d. 26 Jul 1860. DNB.
HARCOURT-VERNON, EDWARD LEVESON, third son of Granville Harcourt-Vernon (qv); b. 8 Apr 1824; adm. 17 Jan 1838 (G); QS 1838; d. at Lausanne, Switzerland 16 Oct 1840.