W. Gray, a senior vicar of the cathedral: he knew the classics, and studied French, mathematics, and Hebrew.
[1] Hannah helped his father in his trade, and at an early age became a Wesleyan preacher in villages around Lincoln, preaching his first sermon at Waddington.
He expressed an interest during 1813 in Thomas Coke's mission to India, though the anticipated vacancy did not occur.
In 1843 he was appointed to the theological tutorship of the northern branch of the Institution for training ministers, at Didsbury in Yorkshire, which he held till within a few months of his death.
[1] In 1856 Hannah crossed the Atlantic a second time, accompanied by Frederick James Jobson, as the representative of English Methodism to Methodists of the United States.