all sportsmen (1814), concerned field sports, on which he was an acknowledged authority. On the death of his brother William, the 3rd Baron, in December 1814, the barony of Coleraine descended to Hanger, but he declined to assume the title. He died in London in 1824, whereupon the peerage became extinct. Little is known about Hanger's personal life. His autobiography tells the colorful story of a youthful marriage to a gypsy, who left him for a tinker. He was survived by a second wife, Mary Anne (possibly his housekeeper) and a son, John Greenwood Hanger (baptized 1817, died 1847). Works An address to the army, in reply to strictures by R. M'Kenzie...on Tarleton's History of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781 (London, 1789) Anticipation of the freedom of Brabant, with the expulsion of the Austrian troops from that country (London, 1792) Military reflections on the attack and defence of the city of London (London, 1795) The life, adventures, and opinions of Col. George Hanger 2 vols. (London, 1801) Reflections on the menaced invasion, and the means of protecting the capital (London, 1804) The lives and adventures and sharping tricks of notorious eminent gamesters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (London, 1804) A Plan for the Formation of a Corps, Which Never Has Been Raised As Yet In Any Army In Europe: In Which Corps Singly Shall Be Comprised All the Strength, Activity, Energy, and Skill of Four Corps; Namely, a Regular Battalion, a Corps of Light Infantry, a Corps of Sharp Shooters, and a Corps of Rifle Marksmen (London, 1808) A letter to...Lord Castlereagh...proving how one hundred and fifty thousand men may be acquired in...two months (London, 1808) Colonel George Hanger to all sportsmen, and particularly to farmers and gamekeepers (London, 1814) References Ian Saberton, George Hanger: The Life and Times of an Eccentric Nobleman (Tolworth UK: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd, 2018) External links The life, adventures, and opinions of Col. George Hanger at the Internet Archive Volume I Volume II 1751 births 1824 deaths People educated at Eton College People from Gloucestershire British military writers English memoirists British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War Grenadier Guards officers Royal Artillery officers East Surrey Regiment officers Personnel of German units of the American Revolutionary War South Lancashire Regiment officers People educated at Reading School