Harold Greville Hanbury (19 June 1898 at Compton Verney House, Warwickshire – 12 March 1993 at Pinetown, Natal, South Africa) was Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1949 to 1964.
He was educated at Charterhouse and took up a Classical Scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1915, but interrupted his studies for military service in the British Army in 1916, returning to complete his degree after the end of World War I.
In that year he was appointed Vinerian Professor of English Law, which carried with it a Fellowship at All Souls College.
In 1980 Margaret, Hanbury's wife, whom he had married in 1927 (a niece of the Danish pathologist Georges Dreyer), died, and he left England to live with a god-daughter in Natal, South Africa, where he died in 1993 aged 94 Hanbury was a highly regarded figure in the Oxford of his day, on account of his accessible lecturing style and affable personality, and immensely popular with his undergraduates.
His publications were not numerous, but included "Modern Equity", first published in 1935, which continues to be published as Hanbury and Martin: Modern Equity having been authored for many editions by Professor Jill E. Martin (the book is now in its 21st edition, 2018, by James Glister and James Lee).