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and he was from 1885 to 1892 M.P. for North Tyrone. Lord Hamilton has written several novels and war-books, but for some years before the War he gave much atten tion to the study of religion. In Involution (1912) he declares that &quot;Church dogmas are doomed &quot; (p. 21), that Christ was a human teacher like Buddha, and that the doctrine of a future life is in acceptable (p. 349). He is, however, a Theist.

HANNOTIN, Emile, French writer. B. Aug. 21, 1812. He was a liberal and anti clerical journalist at Paris who was com pelled by Napoleon III to retire from the Press. Among his later writings are several nationalist works on religion : Un progres du christianisme (1854) and Essai sur I homme (1882). D. 1886.

HANOTAUX, Gabriel Albert Auguste,

French historian. B. Nov. 19, 1853. Ed. Lycee de St. Quentin, Ecole de Chartres, and Ecole de Droit. To his legal training M. Hanotaux added political experience as well as wide reading. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs 1894-96 and 1896-98, and he has written much on foreign and colonial questions and on the diplomatic antecedents of the War. He is an Officer of the Legion of Honour and a member of the Academy. Culturally, he is one of the most accom plished of living French historians (espe cially in his Histoire du Cardinal de Richelieu, 2 vols., 1893 and 1903, and Histoire de la France contemporaine, 1903). He is for peace with the Church, but stands wholly outside it (see his Introduction to Despagnet s La republique ct le Vatican, 1906).

HANSON, Sir Richard Davies, Chief Justice of South Australia. B. Dec. 6, 1805. Ed. private school. He was articled to a London solicitor, and after 1828 he practised, besides editing the Globe. In 1838 he accompanied Lord Durham to Canada, and in 1840 he went from Canada to New Zealand, becoming Crown Prose cutor at Wellington. He went to South 323

Australia in 1846, became Advocate General in 1851, Attorney General in 1856, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1861. He was knighted in 1869, and was elected Chancellor of Adelaide University in 1874. Hanson was an outspoken Eation- alist. He published Law in Nature (1865), The Jesus of History (1869), Letters to and from Borne (1869), and The Apostle Paul (1875). D. Mar. 4, 1876.

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HARDWICKE, Herbert Junius, M.D., F.K.C.S., M.E.C.P., physician, brother of W. W. Hardwicke. B. 1850. Ed. London, Edinburgh, and Paris. He was a member of the Edinburgh College of Physicians, and was for some time a surgeon in the Egyptian service. In 1879 he took a prominent part in the foundation of the Sheffield Hospital for Skin Diseases, to which he was appointed Physician. Dr. Hardwicke is an Agnostic, and, seeing the timidity of publishers after the prosecution of Mr. Foote, he set up a press of his own to print his Popular Faith Unveiled (1884) and Evolution and Creation (1887). He has written also on travel and on hygiene.

HARDWICKE, William Wright, M.D.,

M.E.C.P., L.E.C.P.E., physician. He was formerly Medical Officer of Health for Harwich Borough and Port ; and for many years Physician to Molesey and Hampton Court Cottage Hospital. Author of The Rationalist s Manual, 1897 ; Evolution of Man, his Religious Systems, and Social Customs, 1899; Sunday Observance, its Origin and Meaning, 1906. Like his brother, Dr. H. J. Hardwicke, he is a Spencerian Agnostic.

HARNEY, George Julian, journalist. B. Feb. 17, 1817. From 1832 to 1855 Harney took a brave part in the struggle against the Newspaper Stamp Act, and was twice imprisoned for selling unstamped 324