John Hannah

John Hannah (16 July 1818 – 1 June 1888) was a Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster.

Life He was born in Lincoln, the son of Jane (née Caparn or Capavor, died 1870) and Reverend John Hannah (1792–1867). He was the eldest of eight children, the rest of whom died in infancy or early youth.

Hannah was educated initially by his father, before being sent to St Saviour's Grammar School, Southwark. He received his Master of Art degree in 1843 and in 1853 was made a Doctor of Canon Law (DCL) by the University of Edinburgh. upon the death of the Reverend Henry Michell Wagner. Hannah's son (John Julius Hannah) was immediately appointed curate of the same parish, and they all lived together as a family in the St Nicholas vicarage. In 1877 he retired from his parish at St Peter's being replaced by his son as vicar.

He died of heart failure on 1 June 1888 and was buried in Brighton in the same vault as his wife, who had died in 1877.