Dr. Ian Campbell Hannah was a British

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 academic, writer and Conservative Party

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 politician.

Born in Chichester

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, he was president of the University of King's College

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, in Windsor, Nova Scotia

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, from 1904-1906. In 1904 Campbell married American artist Edith Brand. After a spell in England, Hannah returned to America in 1915 to become professor of church history at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, Oberlin, Ohio

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. He returned to the UK again in 1925, to live on his family estate near Edinburgh

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.

He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for the Bilston constituency

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 at the 1935 general election

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and held the seat until he died in office in 1944.

Hannah published several books, many with illustrations by his wife, including Sussex (1912), Berwick and the Lothians (1913), The Heart of East Anglia, and Capitals of the Northlands (1914), and The Story of Scotland in Stone (1934).