Sir John Hannam, MP

WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS1604Family and Education b. c.1574, 1st s. of Thomas Hannam of Wimborne Minster by Penelope, da. of John Popham. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1588; M. Temple 1590. m. aft. 1601, Joan, da. and h. of Robert Wichalse of Chudleigh, Devon, wid. of Charles Trevanion, 1da. suc. fa. 1593. Kntd. 1603.

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Duchy of Lancaster lt. in Holt and Badbury chase, Dorset 1594; j.p. Dorset temp. Jas. 1, sheriff 1614-15.

Biography Hannam had considerable Dorset estates and was a benefactor to Wimborne Minster. He presumably owed his seat at East Looe to a court connexion through his grandfather, Chief Justice Popham. He was in Geneva in December 1600. He died intestate 28 Aug. 1625.

Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. xx), 51; Sir Wm. Pole, Collections, 262 (ex inf. Rev. D. C. Hannam); Somerville, Duchy, i. 629; HMC Hatfield, x. 403; Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 199, 231, 232; PCC admon. act bk. 1626, f. 44.

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