HANNAM, John (c.1574-1625), of Deans Court, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, and London.

Constituency	Dates
East Looe	[]
Weymouth and Melcombe Regis	[]

Family and Education

b. c. 1574, 1st s. of Thomas Hannam of Wimborne Minster by Penelope, da. of John Popham. educ. Balliol, Oxf. 1588; M. Temple 1590. m. aft. 1601, Joan, da. and h. of Robert Wichalse of Chudleigh, Devon, wid. of Charles Trevanion, 1da. suc. fa. 1593. Kntd. 1603.

Offices Held

Duchy of Lancaster lt. in Holt and Badbury chase, Dorset 1594; j.p. Dorset temp. Jas. 1, sheriff 1614–15.

Address

Main residences: Deans Court, Wimborne Minster, Dorset; London.

biography text

Hannam had considerable Dorset estates and was a benefactor to Wimborne Minster. He presumably owed his seat at East Looe to a court connexion through his grandfather, Chief Justice Popham. He was in Geneva in December 1600. He died intestate 28 Aug. 1625.1Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. xx), 51; Sir Wm. Pole, Collections, 262 (ex inf. Rev. D. C. Hannam); Somerville, Duchy, i. 629; HMC Hatfield, x. 403; Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 199, 231, 232; PCC admon. act bk. 1626, f. 44.

Author

M.R.P.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Notes

1. Vis. Dorset (Harl. Soc. xx), 51; Sir Wm. Pole, Collections, 262 (ex inf. Rev. D. C. Hannam); Somerville, Duchy, i. 629; HMC Hatfield, x. 403; Hutchins, Dorset, iii. 199, 231, 232; PCC admon. act bk. 1626, f. 44.