Sir Charles Hanson, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Augustin Hanson, 1st Baronet (1846 - 17 January 1922) of Fowey was a British politician.
He 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
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