MS 920 04 01

Reference code

MS 920 04 01

Title

Hannen family archive: Papers of James Hannen: Legal papers

Level

Sub-series

Date

1839-1894

Extent & medium

5 files and 1 boxed item

Content description

The papers cover James Hannen's career from his legal studies in Germany from 1839 to 1841, his years as circuit court judge; his role assisting the prosecution in the Fenian trials in Manchester, 1867 to 1868 and as President of the Court of Probate, Divorce and Admiralty division, 1872 to 1875; his elevation to the House of Lords as Lord of Appeal in 1891; his lead role in the tribunal on Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish nationalists in 1888; and his final instrumental role as British arbitrator on the panel of the Bering Sea Arbitration between Britain and the United States, 1892 to 1894.

Arrangement

These papers were disordered. An artificial order has been imposed, the papers are arranged chronologically into 5 files, covering aspects of Hannen's legal career