Charles Addington Hanbury (bapt. 16 September 1828''London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917'' – 13 December 1900) was an English brewer from the Hanbury brewing family and a master of the Brewers' Company in 1857.

Family

Hanbury was born in

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, Hackney,

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, to Robert Hanbury, a partner for more than 50 years in the brewers Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co., and his wife, Emily Hall Hanbury. In 1853, he married Christine Isabella MacKenzie in Inverness. One of their sons was the geographer, traveller and author, David Theophilus Hanbury.

Career

In 1859, Hanbury was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 12th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, a unit got up by Wilbraham Taylor of

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, a gentleman usher to

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who became a captain in the unit. They had premises in High Street, Barnet. Around 1861, he bought Mount Pleasant in East Barnet.Page, William. (Ed.) (1908
"Parishes: East Barnet"
in ''A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2''. Originally published by

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contain a number of leases entered into by Hanbury in the 1880s on behalf of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co.

Death

Hanbury died in a riding accident when he was thrown from his horse and broke his neck while hunting with the Warwickshire Hounds at

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near Rugby.

References

1828 births Date of birth missing 1900 deaths English brewers People from Upper Clapton English justices of the peace Volunteer Force officers in Middlesex units 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-bio-stub