Jonas Hanway, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1712)

Jonas Hanway

English merchant, writer and philanthropist (1712–1786)

Jonas Hanway, FRSA, was an English merchant, writer and philanthropist. He was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking. Hanway created seventy-four printed works, mostly pamphlets, on a wide variety of subjects. Of literary…