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HAGGARD, MARK, fourth son of John Haggard (qv); b. 30 Jan 1825; adm. 30 Jun 1835 (Benthall's); QS 1839; rowed against Eton 26 Jul 1842; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1843, matr. 9 Jun 1843, Westminster Student; won University Pairs with William Henry Milman (qv) 1843-5; rowed against Cambridge 1845 and in Oxford Eight at Henley 1847, 1848; BA 1847; MA 1850; ordained; Curate of St. Paul’s, Bedminster, Somerset; d. unm. at sea on way home from Madeira 10 Apr 1854.

HAKLUYT, RICHARD, brother of Thomas Hakluyt (qv); b. 1553; adm.; QS in 1564; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1570, Westminster Student to 1583; BA 19 Feb 1573/4; MA 27 Jan 1577/8; ordained 1578 [check]; Chaplain to Sir Edward Stafford, Ambassador to Paris 1583-8; Prebendary of Bristol from 1586; Rector of Wetheringsett with Brockford, Suffolk, from 20 Apr 1590; Prebendary of Westminster from 4 May 1602, Archdeacon from 1603; Chaplain of the Savoy 1604; Rector of Gedney, Lincs., from 1612; one of the chief Adventurers in the South Virginia Co.; took a keen interest from his boyhood in geography and discovery; lectured on the construction and use of maps, spheres and nautical instruments; his book, The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, 1589 (issued in an expanded three-volume edition in 1598-1600), has been described as “the prose epic of the modern English nation”; left a large collection of unpublished MSS, several of which were printed in an abridged form by Purchas in his Pilgrimes; the Hakluyt Society, named in his honour, was founded 15 Dec 1846 for the printing of narratives of voyages and travels, and related records; bequeathed £5 towards repairing the north windows of Westminster Abbey and 10 shillings each to Richard Ireland (adm. 1582, qv) and John Wilson (elected 1602, qv); m. 1st, c. 1594, Douglasse Cavendish, Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk; lic. to m. 2nd, 30 Mar 1604 Frances, widow of William Smithe, St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, London; d. 23 Nov 1616. Buried Westminster Abbey.

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.

HANMER, SIR THOMAS, BART., only surviving son of William Hanmer, Bettisfield, Flints., and Peregrina, dau. of Sir Henry North, Bart.; b. 24 Sep 1677; at school under Busby (Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart, ed., The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart., 1838, 5); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1693; LLD Cambridge 16 Apr 1705; succ. uncle as 4th baronet 1701; MP Thetford 19 Mar 1700/1-2, Flintshire 1702-5, Thetford 1705-8, Suffolk 1708-27; Chairman of the Committee which drew up the “Representation” 1712; travelling in Italy 1713; Speaker, House of Commons 16 Feb 1713/4 – 5 Jan 1714/5; editor of an edition of Shakespeare’s plays, 6 vols, 1743-4; m. 1st, Oct 1698 Isabella, Duchess of Grafton, widow of Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton KG, and dau. of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington (qv); m. 2nd, 1725 Elizabeth, only dau. of Thomas Folkes, Barton, Suffolk; d. 7 May 1746. DNB.

HANNING, WILLIAM, son of John Hanning, Dillington, Somerset, and Susan, dau. of Thomas Harvard, Barrington Court, Somerset; b.; adm. 22 Feb 1785; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Nov 1788, aged 18; MA 1793; adm. Inner Temple 13 Nov 1789; of Dillington, Somerset; m. 1800 Harriett, dau. of Edward Lee, Pinhoe, Devon; d. 15 Apr 1834, aged 66.

HARCOURT-VERNON, GRANVILLE EDWARD, eldest son of Granville Harcourt-Vernon (qv), and his first wife; b. 23 Nov 1816; adm. 16 Sep 1829 (Stikeman's); KS 1830; Capt. of the School 1834; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1835, matr. 4 Jun 1835, Westminster Student; BA 1839; MA 1842; Private Secretary to Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (qv), when Chief Secretary for Ireland, and to Earl of Lincoln MP, when Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests and Chief Secretary for Ireland; MP (Peelite) Newark 1852-7; m. 23 Nov 1854 Lady Selina Catherine Meade, only dau. of Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam PC GCH, Ambassador at Berlin; d. 1 Feb 1861.

HARLEY, EDWARD, 2ND EARL OF OXFORD, only son of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford PC KG, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord High Treasurer, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Foley MP, Witley Court, Worcs.; nephew of Edward Harley (at school under Busby, qv); b. 2 Jun 1689; at school under Knipe; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Oct 1707; MA 2 Jan 1711/2; DCL 4 Jun 1730; MP New Radnor 16 Jul 1711-5, Cambridgeshire 1722 – 21 May 1724; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Oxford 21 May 1724; FRS 23 Nov 1727; High Steward of Cambridge from 1728; friend of Pope, Swift and Matthew Prior (qv), and patron of George Vertue and Oldys; added very considerably to his father’s collection of books and manuscripts; also collected pictures, prints and coins; his Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, estate was sold in 1740 to Lord Hardwicke to pay off his debts; his miscellaneous curiosities, coins, medals and portraits were sold by auction in March 1741/2; the books, pamphlets and prints were purchased the same year by the bookseller Thomas Osborne; the manuscripts were sold to the nation in 1753 and are now the Harleian MSS in the British Library; Busby Trustee 18 Feb 1725/6; the letters to him from his Oxford tutor William Stratford (qv), which make frequent allusions to the School, are calendared HMC Portland MSS, vol. vii; m. 31 Oct 1713 Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, only dau. of John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare (afterwards 1st Duke of Newcastle); d. 16 Jun 1741. Buried Duke of Newcastle’s vault, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

HARLEY, ROBERT WILLIAM DAKER, eldest son of John Harley, Ross Hall, Shropshire, and Anna Maria Platt, dau. of Robert Smith, Pontypool, Monmouthshire; b. 3 Apr 1846; adm. 28 Sep 1860 (James'); rowed v. Eton 28 Jul 1864; left Aug 1865; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Oct 1865, matr. Mich. 1865; succeeded to estates of Earls of Oxford under the will of Jane, Lady Langdale, daughter of Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford (qv); of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire; DL JP Herefordshire, High Sheriff 1883; JP Shropshire 1880, also JP Radnorshire; m. 17 Dec 1878 Hon. Patience Annie Rodney, only dau. of Robert Dennett Rodney, 6th Baron Rodney; d. 13 Nov 1907.

HARRISON, HENRY, son of Rev. William Bagshaw Harrison, Vicar of Goudhurst, Kent, and Charlotte Tonkin; b. 27 Mar 1813; adm. 17 Jan 1826 (Singleton's); KS 1827; rowed v. Eton 1831; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1831, matr. Mich. 1831; BA 1835; MA 1838; ordained deacon 5 Jun 1836, priest 8 Oct 1837 (both Canterbury); Curate, Goudhurst, Kent 1836-40; Vicar of Kilndown, Goudhurst, Kent, from 1840; Chaplain to Ticehurst Union 1853; m. 9 Sep 1840 Emily, dau. of Richard Springett, Finchcox Park; d. 28 Sep 1892.

HARRISON, WILLIAM BASSETT, son of John Orton Harrison, Wardour Street, London, and Harriet --- (IGI); b. 14 Jan 1804; adm. 27 Jan 1817; left Christmas 1817.