Edward Joseph Hannan

Canon Edward Joseph Hannan (Irish: Éamonn Seosamh Ó hAnnáin) (1836–1891) was an Irish-born priest, mainly remembered as the founder of Hibernian Football Club in Edinburgh.

During his 30 years in Edinburgh he did much to address the social problems of the poorer Catholics in the city, and founded a local branch of the Catholic Young Mens Society (CYMS) in 1865; the organisation founded in Ireland in 1849 by Monsignor Richard B. O'Brien, who had taught at All Hallows part of the time that Hannan was there.

[3][4] In 1875, together with the 21 year old Michael Whelahan (originally from Co. Roscommon in Ireland) of the CYMS, and in part to mark the centenary of Daniel O'Connell's birth, he founded Hibernian Football Club.

[6] By 1885, he had been made a Canon but was denied a lengthy tenure since he died of pneumonia on 24 June 1891, following a bout of influenza.

He is buried on the western path of the original part of Grange Cemetery in southern Edinburgh.