HANBURY, NATHANIEL, son of Philip Hanbury, London; b.; adm.; KS 1673; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1677, adm. pens. 20 Jun 1677, aged 18, scholar 1678, matr. 1680; BA 1680/1; MA 1684; BD 1703; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1683, Junior Dean 1706-8, Senior Dean 1712-4; signed the petition against Bentley 1709; ordained; Curate, St. Michael’s, Cambridge; author Horologia Scioterica, 1683, and Supplementum analyticum ad Aequationes Cartesianos, 1691; buried Trinity Coll. Chapel 10 Nov 1715.

HANCOCK, GEORGE; b.; adm.; QS; a contributor to the collection of congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth written by the QSS in 1597 (British Museum, Royal MSS); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, sizar, matr. 1598; BA 1601/2; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1605, priest 22 Dec 1605, aged 25; Curate, Shottesham, Norfolk; a schoolmaster there in 1604.

HANCOCK, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; a contributor to the collection of verses written by the QSS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil in 1597 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield House); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, pensioner, matr. c. 1597; BA 1602/3; MA 1606 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1607); Fellow of Pembroke Hall 25 May 1606; ordained priest (Peterborough) 24 Sep 1609.

HANCOCKE, HUMPHREY; b.; adm.; GS 1540; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments).

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.