10 Facts About Jonas Hanway

Jonas Hanway, was a British philanthropist and traveller.

Jonas Hanway was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking.

Jonas Hanway was born in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England.

Jonas Hanway was the first male Londoner, it is said, to carry an umbrella, and he lived to triumph over all the hackney coachmen who tried to hoot and hustle him down.

Jonas Hanway attacked vail-giving, or tipping, with some temporary success; by his onslaught upon tea drinking he became involved in controversy with Johnson and Goldsmith.

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Jonas Hanway advocated solitary confinement for prisoners and opposed naturalization of non-British Jews.

Jonas Hanway stated that tea drinking caused bad breath, ugliness and weakened the nerves.

Jonas Hanway was concerned about the nation's economic loss from the tea trade with China.

Jonas Hanway believed that Britain's national wealth was being given to other countries instead of being used in preparing the nation's defence and that excessive tea drinking was weakening the British population.

Jonas Hanway's cited frequently for his work with the Foundling Hospital, particularly his pamphlets detailing the earliest comparative "histories" of the foundation versus similar institutions abroad.