Hanna, WILLIAM

Hanna, WILLIAM, the biographer of Chalmers, was born in 1808, the son of a theological professor at Belfast. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, and was ordained in 1835 to the Lanarkshire parish of East Kilbride. He came out at the Disruption, and became in 1850 colleague to Dr Guthrie in Free St John's Church, Edinburgh. He was made D.D. by Edinburgh in 1864, and resigned his church through ill-health in 1867, but survived until 1882. He edited for some years the North British Review, and published many theological books, of which perhaps the best known is Our Lord's Life on Earth (1869). Well-known works are his Memoirs of Dr Chalmers, his father-in-law (4 vols. 1849-52; a fifth, his correspondence, 1853), and The Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1877-78).