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Rev Harry Hankey (1730-1782)
Second son of Sir Joseph Hankey, Harry was born on 1 Mar 1730 and baptised on 15 Mar at St Dionis Backchurch. Educated at Mr Grimwood’s School, Dedham and St John’s College, Cambridge 1747. Rector of Brantham and East Bergholt 1754-1782 (the Living being in the gift of Emmanuel College, Cambridge); Rector of Peldon, Essex 1761-1782; Chaplain to the Earl of Ilchester.
On his father’s death in 1769 he inherited the advowson and rectory at Great Wenham; these he later sold to his brother Joseph Chaplin Hankey, who left them to his own son Rev Harry Hankey (1768-1822).
Harry’s nephew Joseph Chaplin Hankey jr. had had his education overseen by Rev Durand Rhudde, DD (1734-1819), who at one time was lecturer at St Dionis Backchurch.
On Harry’s death in 1782, Chaplin Hankey presented to Rhudde the living of Brantham and East Bergholt. In about 1792 Chaplin Hankey sold the advowson to Sir William Rowley, but Rhudde held the living until his death twenty-seven years later. Seeking preferment in 1799, Rhudde wrote to William Pitt that ‘the livings are now more than £650 per annum exclusive of house, offices and gardens, furnishing an elegant residence for a clergyman of two thousand a year: and they are considerably improvable, as at this time they produce but little more than the amount of their valuation in the year 1770.
Harry died on 25 Apr 1782, aged 52, and was buried on 3 May at East Bergholt. His will was proved on 14 May 1782.
East Bergholt Church
By John Constable