Benjamin Hanbury

Dr. John Humphrys, pastor of Union Street congregation, Southwark, who later became principal of Mill Hill School.

For a time he was engaged in a retail business; then in June 1803, through the influence of Ebenezer Maitland, he obtained a post in the Bank of England, and remained there till 1859.

He was a member of Society for Promoting Ecclesiastical Knowledge, instituted for the publication of works bearing on nonconformist theories.

[1] Hanbury published:[1] He edited Richard Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity (1830, 3 vols), including notes and Isaak Walton's Life.

[1] He was the son of Rebecca Humphries and John Hanbury, of a family of stuff weavers long settled in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.