Brook Hannah
Australian rules footballer and missionary
Brook Hannah | ||
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Brook Hannah when playing for
Carlton Football Club
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Personal information | ||
Full name | Charles Brooking Hannah | |
Date of birth | ( 1874-09-28 ) 28 September 1874 | |
Place of birth | Heidelberg, Victoria , Australia | |
Date of death | 14 January 1961 (1961-01-14) (aged 86) | |
Place of death | Tunbridge Wells , England | |
Position(s) | Rover / Forward | |
Other occupation | Missionary | |
Playing career 1 | ||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) |
1897 | Carlton | 14 (0) |
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Playing statistics correct to the end of 1897.
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Sources: AFL Tables , AustralianFootball.com |
Charles Brooking 'Brook' Hannah (28 September 1874 – 14 January 1961) was a former Australian rules footballer turned missionary who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL; formerly Victorian Football Association [VFA]). [1]
Life and career
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Brook Hannah was born on 28 September 1874 to William Hannah and Polly Lewis. His family home "Llanellan", was named after a township in Wales . It was said that his father became estranged from the family and supposedly sailed to New Zealand. [2]
He studied law at the University of Melbourne before his debut for the "Maroons" against Carlton on 15 July 1893. He is accredited with at least 37 VFA games and a further 14 for Carlton in the VFL, and was considered one of the best players afield. [2] Carlton captain Jimmy Aitken said that "Brook Hannah defeated Collingwood 's Pannam pointless and had worked over Geelong 's McCallum in a similar fashion two weeks earlier." [3]
After retiring from playing football, Hannah joined the China Inland Mission as an ordained missionary , and served as an assistant superintendent to Bishop Mowll of the Anglican Diocese of Szechwan . [2] He survived the attacks on foreign Christian missionaries during the Boxer Rebellion . He later worked in Tanganyika (now part of Tanzania ). Hannah served as a missionary for over 50 years before retiring to Tunbridge Wells in England with his wife, May, an English-born missionary, where he died on 14 January 1961. [2]
Personal life
Brook Hannah met his future wife May, also a missionary, in China. The couple married around 1904. They had two sons, David and John, both died in infancy. [2]
See also
Notes
- ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 341. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bolfo, Tony De (14 August 2014). "God's Footballer" . carltonfc.com.au . Retrieved 18 July 2022 .
- ↑ "Brook Hannah" . blueseum.org . Retrieved 26 May 2023 .
External links
- Brook Hannah's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Brook Hannah's profile at Blueseum