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| rdfs:comment | - Sir Francis Stanhope Hanson (3 October 1868 – 17 February 1910) was a merchant and local politician. He was the second son of Sir Reginald Hanson Baronet, sometime Lord Mayor of London and member of parliament for the City of London. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the family firm of Samuel Hanson & Company, wholesale grocers, becoming head of the company in 1905. In 1897 he married Pearl Norcott Winter of Kensington, and they had a son and daughter.
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| abstract | - Sir Francis Stanhope Hanson (3 October 1868 – 17 February 1910) was a merchant and local politician. He was the second son of Sir Reginald Hanson Baronet, sometime Lord Mayor of London and member of parliament for the City of London. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the family firm of Samuel Hanson & Company, wholesale grocers, becoming head of the company in 1905. In 1897 he married Pearl Norcott Winter of Kensington, and they had a son and daughter. He was an active freemason and held a commission as commanding officer of the 6th (Militia) Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers. On the death of his father in 1905 he was unanimously elected to fill his place as an alderman for Billingsgate Ward on the Corporation of London. He was Sheriff of the City of London in 1908, and was knighted in that year. In 1907 he was elected to the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing City of London.
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