page_title: Hanley, Staffordshire
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Hanley, Staffordshire / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Stanley Matthews by Colin Melbourne in Hanley town centre.
context_page_description: Hanley, in Staffordshire, England, is a constituent town of the City of Stoke-on-Trent. Hanley was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1857 and became a county borough with the passage of the Local Government Act 1888. In 1910, along with Burslem, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent it was federated into the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent. Hanley was the only one of the six towns to be a county borough before the merger; its status was transferred to the enlarged borough. In 1925, following the granting of city status, it became one of the six towns that constitute the City of Stoke-on-Trent.
  Hanley is the de facto city centre having long been the commercial hub of the city of Stoke-on-Trent. It is home to the Potteries Shopping Centre and many high street chain stores.
context_section_description: Joseph Glass (fl.1670-1701 at least), potter
  Henry Heath (1828–1908) was a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) pioneer, explorer, settler and lawman in the frontier Utah Territory.
  Sarah Benett (1850-1924), Suffragette, member of the WSPU and social reformer worked in Hanley
  Edward Smith (1850–1912) Merchant Navy officer, captain of the RMS Titanic, who went down with the ship.
  Sir Albert Edward Bowen, 1st Baronet (1858–1924) businessman, spent much of his life in Argentina.
  Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) writer and novelist, but he also worked in the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films.
  Mabel Mary Spanton (1874–1940) landscape painter, worked in watercolour.
  Frederick Hurten Rhead (1880–1942) ceramicist  and a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.
  Raymond Coxon (1896–1997) artist, had retrospective exhibition at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in 1987.
  George Henry Evans Hopkins OBE (1898–1973) entomologist 
  Henry Joseph Gallagher DCM (1914 – 1988) was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his gallantry during the Korean War.
  John Forrester (1924–2007) Labour Party politician, MP for Stoke North 1966–1987.
  Harold Perkin (1926–2004) social historian  and founder of the Social History Society (1976).
  Jeff Kent (born 1951) academic, musician, author and historian.
caption: Sir Stanley Matthews statue in the town centre
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