Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hanmer
(1789-1868)
27 June 1861

Volume 4, page 143, sitting number 4641.

Henry Hanmer was born on 30 April 1789 at Whitchurch in Shropshire, the fifth son and sixth child of Sir Thomas Hanmer. He entered the Army in 1808; by 1813 he had attained the rank of Captain and was present at the Battle of Waterloo. He retired from the Army on 18 May 1826, at which time his rank in the regiment was Major and his rank in the Army was Lieutenant-Colonel. Between 1832 and 1836 he served as the Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, and in 1854, he was the Sheriff of Buckinghamshire.

He appears on the 1861 census, a widower living with his niece at Stockgrove, the house he built near Bradenham in Buckinghamshire. He gave his profession as 'Late L. Colonel, Royal Horse Guards, Blue' and his birthplace as Whitchurch, Salop.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hanmer died at Stockgrove in Buckinghamshire on 2 February 1868. His estate was valued at £9000. 

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]