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Biography
Charles Addington Hanbury (c. 1828 – 13 December 1900) was a member of the Hanbury brewing family and a master of the Brewers' Company in 1857.
Family
Hanbury's father was Robert Hanbury, a partner for more than 50 years in the brewers Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co., who died on 20 January 1884.
In 1853 he married Christine Isabella MacKenzie in Inverness. One of their sons was the geographer, traveller and author, David Theophilus Hanbury.
Career
In 1859, Hanbury was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 12th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, a unit got up by Wilbraham Taylor of Hadley Hurst, a gentleman usher to Queen Victoria who became a captain in the unit. They had premises in High Street, Barnet.
Around 1861, he bought Mount Pleasant in East Barnet.
The London Metropolitan Archives contain a number of leases entered into by Hanbury in the 1880s on behalf of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co.
Death
Hanbury died in a riding accident when he was thrown from his horse and broke his neck will hunting with the Warwickshire Hounds at Grandborough near Rugby.