order of the Duke, and settled in 1797 at Erlangen. In 1800, he was made Knight Vice-Chancellor of the Order of Saint Joachim, an order he was afterwards instrumental in conferring on Nelson. He now devoted himself to the compilation of An Accurate Historical Account of all the Orders of Knighthood at Present Existing in Europe, which was printed at Hamburg and published in London in 1803, with a dedication to Nelson. In 1807, he moved to Stockholm, where he was presented to Gustavus IV by the British minister. An entertaining account of Hanson's appearance at this ceremony is given in Brown's Memoirs of Northern Courts. In 1811, Hanson moved for the last time to Copenhagen, where in the same year he published Miscellaneous Compositions in Verse, dedicated to his friend Warren Hastings. Death Hanson died at Copenhagen on 22 April 1814. He was unmarried and his property passed to his only sister, Mary, wife of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 7th baronet, of Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds. Hanson's correspondence, containing amusing and interesting details of the various courts which he visited, together with three portraits (one a miniature by N. Hone), are preserved at Hardwick House, now in the possession of G. Milner Gibson-Cullum, F.S.A. References 1754 births 1814 deaths People educated at Paston College 18th-century English writers 18th-century English male writers 19th-century English writers 18th-century military personnel People from Normanton, West Yorkshire