Born in Ballymena, County Antrim and educated at Gracehill Academy, Ballymena Academy and Trinity College, Dublin, Hanna was first admitted as a solicitor in 1901, being called to the Bar in 1920, taking silk in 1933.
A former pupil of Ballymena Academy he was critical of the politics of Roger Casement,a fellow attendee of Ballymena Academy and prominent Protestant Irish Nationalist who was previously a British diplomat later executed for treason.
Academy Awards | United States Military Academy | Russian Academy of Sciences | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | United States Naval Academy | United States Air Force Academy | Royal Academy of Music | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Brooklyn Academy of Music | Phillips Academy | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst | Phillips Exeter Academy | Chinese Academy of Sciences | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | National Academy of Engineering | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | British Academy | Academy Award for Best Picture | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Polish Academy of Sciences | Academy Award for Best Visual Effects | New York Academy of Sciences | Academy Award for Best Original Song | Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts | Sibelius Academy | National Defence Academy | French Academy of Sciences |
In 2012-13 the top eight seeded teams were Ballymena Academy, Campbell College, Coleraine Academical Institution, Methodist College Belfast, Regent House, Newtownards, Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Sullivan Upper School and Wallace High School.