Levett Hanson

He was the only son of Robert Hanson of Normanton, Yorkshire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Isaack Jackson of Bury St Edmunds.

In the autumn of 1776, he made, in company with Dr. Michael Lort, his first tour on the Continent and acquired a taste for foreign life and society, which led him to live outside of England.

He now devoted himself to the compilation of An Accurate Historical Account of all the Orders of Knighthood at Present Existing in Europe, which was printed at Hamburg and published in London in 1803, with a dedication to Nelson.

He was unmarried and his property passed to his only sister, Mary, wife of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 7th baronet, of Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds.

Hanson's correspondence, containing amusing and interesting details of the various courts which he visited, together with three portraits (one a miniature by N. Hone), are preserved at Hardwick House, now in the possession of G. Milner Gibson-Cullum, F.S.A.