Sir Gerald Hanson, 2nd Baronet
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Sir Gerald Stanhope Hanson, 2nd Baronet (23 April 1867 – 18 January 1946) was a British soldier and landowner. Hanson was the son of former Lord Mayor of London, Sir Reginald Hanson. Educated at
Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...
, he was a British Army captain before choosing life as a country gentleman. He succeeded to the baronetcy on 18 April 1905, on the death of his father. Sir Gerald had a brother, Sir Francis Stanhope Hanson, who was a well known London merchant, and was created a Knight Bachelor in his own right in 1908.See ''History of the Lodge of Assistance, 1899-2002'', London, 2002, page 13. There were also two sisters. Sir Gerald died on 18 January 1946, aged 78, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Richard Leslie Reginald Hanson, 3rd Baronet. Sir Richard Hanson, like his uncle Sir Francis Hanson, was a member of the Lodge of Assistance No 2773 of English Freemasonry.


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* 1867 births 1946 deaths Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
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