MS 920 04 01 03

MS 920 04 01 03

Hannen family archive: Papers of James Hannen: Legal papers as Judge and President, Court of Probate and Divorce Court and Privy Councillor

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1872-1890

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Papers relating to James Hannen's work as Judge and later President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Court:

Letter from Richard Nicholson, Clerk to Middlesex Lieutenancy Office and Clerk of the Peace, Westminster, congratulations on appointment, 12 Nov 1872

Letter from friend Octavius Hansard, congratulations on appointment as Judge of the Court of Probate and Divorce Court and the Privy Council, 13 Nov 1872

Letter from Judge George William Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell, on appointment, 13 Nov 1872

Three letters from Arthur Godley, Prime Minister W E Gladstone’s private secretary about Hannen’s appointment as President of the Probate and Divorce Court Division of the High Court, 8 and 11 Nov 1872

Letter from John Streatfield, Clerk in the Home Office on Hannen's appointment as Judge of the Probate and Divorce Court and request for payment for stamp duty and Letters Patent, 11 Nov 1872

Letter from James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, (1816 –1899) Baron of the Exchequer Court and President, Probate and Divorce Court [Hannen's predecessor], 12 Nov 1872

Letter from James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, (1816 –1899) Baron of the Exchequer Court and President, Probate and Divorce Court, handing over his work to his successor James Hannen, 18 Nov 1872

Oath of appointment of James Hannen to Privy Council, signed by Arthur Helps, Windsor, 27 Nov 1872

Letter from Philip Henry Stanhope, Viscount Mahon at Grosvenor Place, requesting a facsimile of William Pitt’s will, 2 Feb 1873

Letter from Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns (1819 –1885), Lord Chancellor, on Hannen's attendance at a hearing, 10 Nov 1875

Note from Samuel ?Larsen to James Hannen, about a witness in Lord St Leonard’s case [Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron Saint Leonards (1781 –1875) lawyer, judge and Conservative politician], and a Latin quote, n.d. [c.1875/6]

Letter from ?Nixon/Dixon at Exeter, requesting a clerkship for his son, 4 Dec 1875

Letter from the Bishop of Peterborough, 17 Apr 1876

Letter from William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, 23 Mar 1876

Letter from James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, (1816 –1899), Exchequer Court and President, Probate and Divorce Court, 31 May 1876

Fragment of a letter referring to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s intention to write to Sir James Hannen, [c.1880]

Writ for James Hannen’s attendance at Parliament, March 1880

Letter from Princess Helena Augusta Victoria later Princess Christian of Schleswig - Holstein (1846 – 1923) to James Hannen, requesting a clerkship for Mr Savage, 12 Mar 1882

Letter from Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833 – 1897), Duchess of Teck, requesting a district registrarship for Conrad Dillon, 12 Jan 1883

Writ for James Hannen’s attendance at Parliament, Nov 1885

Letter from James Hannen’s pupil, Lord Charles Synge Christopher Bowen c.1888

Letter of abuse from an ?Irish nationalist, F Johnstone of Caraghar, Ohio, about Hannen’s work on Charles Stewart Parnell's Trial, 1888-89, with a news-cutting enclosed, 29 Jul 1889

Letter to ‘My dear Chief’ from Sir Charles Parker Butt (1830 –1892) High Court judge, politician and Hannen’s successor as President, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, 17 Oct 1890

Letter from William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, 6 Dec 1890

Letter from Mary Augusta Ward (1851 –1920), novelist asking James Hannen for his opinion on her draft address for the opening of University Hall, 6 Dec 1890. [She wrote under her married name, Mrs Humphry Ward and also worked to improve education for the poor; was one of a group which set up a Settlement in University Hall London with the intention of bringing educational and recreational opportunities to the poor of the area through a number of ‘Residents’ at the Hall, young professional men, mainly lawyers, who would give lectures and lead activities in return for board and lodging].

Letter from [Lady] C Norton, relating to a probate case, 3 Chesterfield St Mayfair, 26 June n.d.