page_title: John Hannah (Archdeacon of Lewes)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: John Hannah (Archdeacon of Lewes) / Career
caption_attribution_description: Pelham Institute, Upper Bedford Street, Kemptown, City of Brighton and Hove, England. (Picture taken from the north.) A working men's club, social venue and hostel, built in 1877 by Thomas Lainson on behalf of the Vicar of Brighton. The style is High Victorian Gothic. It has been converted into flats by a housing association. Listed at Grade II by English Heritage (IoE Code 481395)
context_page_description: The Reverend John Hannah FRSE was a Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster.
context_section_description: For some of the time, at Lincoln College, he was a private tutor and coach, then in 1854 he was appointed professor of divinity and warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire. Hannah abandoned teaching in 1870 to become vicar of the parish church of St Nicholas in Brighton,  upon the death of the Reverend Henry Michell Wagner.  Hannah's son (John Julius Hannah) was immediately appointed curate of the same parish, and they all lived together as a family in the St Nicholas vicarage.
  John Hannah was made rural dean of Brighton and Hove in 1871 and also given the prebendal stall of Sidlesham in Chichester Cathedral. He was instrumental in having the parish church of Brighton transferred from St. Nicholas Church to that of St Peter's Church, Brighton.   When Hannah moved to St Peter's, in 1873, he left his son as vicar of St Nicholas. In 1876 he was created archdeacon of Lewes, to replace the late Archdeacon Otter, he remained in the post until his death. In the same year, he founded the Pelham Institute—an Anglican "slum mission", working men's club and social venue in the Kemptown area of Brighton.  In 1877 he retired from his parish at St Peter's being replaced by his son as vicar.
  He died of heart failure on 1 June 1888 and was buried in Brighton in the same vault as his wife, who had died in 1877.
caption: Archdeacon Hannah founded the Pelham Institute in Brighton in 1876.
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