Jonas Hanway was an English traveller and philanthropist. He was born in 1712 and died in 1786. At an early age he was apprenticed to a merchant at Lisbon, and in 1743 became a partner in a British house at St Petersburg. He travelled in Persia, and published An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea. Later he settled in London, where he became widely known as an active philanthropist. He is popularly known as one of the first Englishmen to regularly use an umbrella. Research Jonas Hanway
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