Belfast News-Letter/1946/Mr. Henry Hanna K.C.

We regret to announce that Mr. Henry Hanna, K.C. a former Judge of the High Court, Eire, died yesterday at his residence, 83, Pembroke Road, Dublin.

A member of a well-known Belfast family, he was born on January 4, 1871, and was educated at the Belfast Royal Academy, Queen's University and London University. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1896 and joined the old North-East Circuit. In 1911 he took silk and two years later was called to the English Bar. In due course he became a Bencher of King's Inns and in 1919 he was appointed a Serjeant-at-Law. He was not only an erudite lawyer but a most successful advocate and at times found it difficult to cope with the number of briefs that he received. In politics he was a supporter of the late Lord Middleton, the late Rt. Hon. Andrew Jameson, and other Southern Unionists who were in favour of coming to terms with Sinn Fein in 1921. He was appointed a Judge of the Free State High Court in 1925 and resigned in 1943.

Mr. Hanna was an hon. member of the American Bar Association and of the Canadian Bar Association, and a member of the Executive Committee International Academy of Comparative Law, The Hague.

Photography was one of his hobbles and he was one of Ireland's greatest authorities on dogs. For several years he was president of the Irish Kennel Club. He wrote several legal treatises and his book, "The Pals at Suvla Bay"—a record of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusilers during the campaign at Suvla Bay in 1915—showed that he had a passion not only for accuracy but for good writing.