Benjamin Hanbury

Benjamin Hanbury (1778-1864) was a nonconformist historian originally from Wolverhampton, the great-grandson of Joseph Williams of Kidderminster and nephew of the Revd Dr Humphrys, minister at Union Street, Southwark, London and later Mill Hill school. From 1803 to 1859 (largely through Ebenezer Maitland), Hanbury worked at the Bank of England. He was an Independent, and wrote a history of the Union Street congregation in 1820. He served as one of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies for some thirty years. He edited Richard Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity in 1830 and wrote a short life of Calvin in 1831. His most important literary service to Congregationalism was his Historical Memorials Relating to the Independents … from their Rise to the Restoration (1839–44).