Levett Hanson
writer; (1754-1814)
Sir Levett Hanson (1754–1814), was an English-born writer and courtier who was active at a number of European courts.
Early life
Hanson was born 31 December 1754, at Melton, Yorkshire. He was the only son of Robert Hanson of Normanton, Yorkshire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Isaack Jackson of Bury St Edmunds. His father was the son of Benjamin Hanson and Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Levett of Normanton. Hanson went to a school at Bury St. Edmunds in 1766, and afterwards, in 1769, to one at North Walsham, Norfolk, where Nelson was his schoolfellow for two years. He was on terms of friendship with Nelson throughout his life. In 1771, he studied with Dr. Zouch, prebend of Durham, at Wycliffe, and in October 1773 went to Trinity College, Cambridge. Owing to a brawl, he soon migrated to Emmanuel as a fellow-commoner, but did not take a degree.
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