Sir Charles Hanson, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Augustin Hanson (1846 - 17 January 1922), 1st Baronet of Fowey was an alderman of the City of London. He was made Sheriff in 1911-12 and Lord Mayor of London in 1917-18. He was also a Coalition Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodmin in Cornwall from 1916 to 1922. His son, Sir Charles Hanson, 2nd Baronet was to become Lord Lieutenant of London.

Trivia

• He built Fowey Hall, completed in 1899, in Fowey which was the inspiration behind Toad Hall in Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.^[1]
• There have been 3 Lord Mayors of London called Hanson
• Sir William Purdie Treloar was another Cornish Lord mayor of London.^[2]
• Sir Charles owned the first Troy class boat

References

1. ^ Cornwall Marine Directory - Fowey
2. ^ Sir William Purdie

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's List of Baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Hanson