HANNEN, JAMES HANNEN, BARON (1821-1894)

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HANNEN, JAMES HANNEN, BARON (1821-1894) ,. English judge, son of a London merchant, was born at Peckham in 1821. He was educated at St Paul's school and at

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

University. which was famous as a school of law. Called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1848, he joined the

home

circuit. At this time he also wrote for the

press

PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

, and supplied

special

SPECIAL

reports for the Morning Chronicle. Though not eloquent in speech, he was clear, accurate and painstaking, and soon advanced in his profession, passing many more brilliant competitors. He appeared for the claimant in the Shrewsbury peerage case in 1858, when the 3rd

Earl

EARL

Talbot was declared to be entitled to the earldom of Shrewsbury as the descendant of the 2nd

earl

EARL

; was principal agent for

Great

GREAT

Britain on the mixed British and American commission for the

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

of outstanding claims, 1831855; and assisted in the prosecution of the Fenian prisoners at Manchester. In 1868 Hannen was appointed a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench. In many cases he took a strong position of his own, notably in that of Farrar v. Close (1869), which materially affected the legal status of

trade

unions and was regarded by unionists as a severe blow to their interests. Hannen became judge of the Probate and Divorce Court in 1872, and in 1875 he was appointed president of the probate and admiralty division of the High Court of Justice. Here he showed himself a worthy successor to Cresswell and Penzance. Many important causes came before him, but he will chiefly be remembered for the manner in which he presided over the Parnell

special

SPECIAL

commission. His influence pervaded the whole proceedings, and it is understood that he personally penned a large part of the voluminous report. Hannen's last public service was in connexion with the Bering Sea inquiry at Paris, when he acted as one of the British arbitrators. In January 1891 he was appointed a lord of appeal in

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

(with the dignity of a life peerage), but in that capacity he had few opportunities for displaying his powers, and he retired at the close of the session of 1893. He died in London, after a prolonged illness, on the 29th of

March

1894.

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