and he retired at the close of the session of 1893. Personal life He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1891. He died in London, after a prolonged illness, on 29 March 1894 and is interred in the catacombs of West Norwood Cemetery He was the elder brother of Sir Nicholas John Hannen who was Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan from 1891 to 1900 and concurrently British Consul General at Shanghai from 1891 to 1898. Nicholas Hannen also served as the Judge of the British Court for Japan from 1881 to 1891. His son Henry Arthur, born 1861, was formally educated and became a justice of the peace lived in Smiths Hall in West Farleigh & was married. Hannen had a bladder stone removed and suffered from hyperuricemia. He was advised by his surgeon to take up a vegetarian diet which he did for the rest of his life. Hannen was Vice-President of the London Vegetarian Society. References Work cited External links James Hannen, Baron Hannen (National Portrait Gallery) 1821 births 1894 deaths 19th-century English judges British vegetarianism activists Burials at West Norwood Cemetery Fellows of the Royal Society Justices of the King's Bench Knights Bachelor Law lords Heidelberg University alumni Life peers created by Queen Victoria Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People associated with the Vegetarian Society People educated at St Paul's School, London People from Peckham Presidents of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division judges