In 1853, he married Christine Isabella MacKenzie in Inverness, Scotland.
[3] One of their sons was the geographer, traveller and author, David Theophilus Hanbury,[4] and their daughter Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury married the peer and conservative politician Richard Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke.
[5] 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.
[7] The London Metropolitan Archives contain a number of leases entered into by Hanbury in the 1880s on behalf of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co.[8] By 1869, he was a member of the Brick Lane Establishment.
[9] Hanbury died in a riding accident in 1900 when he was thrown from his horse and broke his neck while hunting with the Warwickshire Hounds at Grandborough near Rugby.