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3 unusual facts about Harold Hanbury


Harold Hanbury

In 1980 Margaret, Hanbury's wife, whom he had married in 1927 (a niece of the Danish pathologist Georges Dreyer), died, and he left England to live with a god-daughter in Natal, South Africa, where he died in 1993.

He was afterwards a champion of the Biafran cause, and published in 1968 "Biafra: A Challenge to the Conscience of Britain".

He was the only child of Basil Hanbury and his wife, Patience, née Verney, a daughter of Henry Verney, eighteenth Baron Willoughby de Broke.



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