title: Charles Addington Hanbury
text: # Charles Addington Hanbury
  
  Charles Addington Hanbury DL JP (bapt. 16 September 1828 – 13 December 1900) was an English brewer from the Hanbury brewing family and a master of the Brewers' Company in 1857.
  
  ## Family
  
  Hanbury was born in Upper Clapton, Hackney, London, to Robert Hanbury, a partner for more than 50 years in the brewers Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co., and his wife, Emily Hall Hanbury.
  
  In 1853, he married Christine Isabella MacKenzie in Inverness. One of their sons was the geographer, traveller and author, David Theophilus Hanbury.
  
  ## Career
  
  In 1859, Hanbury was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 12th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, a unit got up by Wilbraham Taylor of Hadley Hurst, a gentleman usher to Queen Victoria who became a captain in the unit. They had premises in High Street, Barnet.
  
  Around 1861, he bought Mount Pleasant in East Barnet.
  
  The London Metropolitan Archives contain a number of leases entered into by Hanbury in the 1880s on behalf of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co.
  
  ## Death
  
  Hanbury died in a riding accident when he was thrown from his horse and broke his neck while hunting with the Warwickshire Hounds at Grandborough near Rugby.
  
  