Edmund Smith Hanbury

1/1. Edmund Smith Hanbury, born 1850, died 1913 at "Poles".Was educated at Eton and Christchurch, Oxford.He, too was a partner in Truman, Hanbury, Burton & Co., but retiring in 1886 after inheriting "Poles" in 1884.He became a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Hertfordshire.In later life, he was for two years, 1906-1909, Prime Warden of one of the famous old London Guilds, the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers.When 26, he had married in 1876, Jane Amy Matilda Leslie, of Warthill, Aberdeenshire, and they had one son, Robert Francis Hanbury, born 1883 at Bedwell Park, and two daughters, Muriel Leslie and Caroline Agatha.In 1890 Edmund and his wife rebuilt "Poles" imposingly in the Jacobean manner, as it still is.