HANNINGTON, JAMES (1847-1885), English mission ary, was born at Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, on Sept. 3, 1847, and was educated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford. He was curate in charge at Hurstpierpoint when his thoughts were turned to mission work by the murder of two missionaries on the shores of Victoria Nyanza. He sailed on May 17, 1882, at the head of a party of six, for Zanzibar, and thence set out for Uganda; but, prostrated by fever and dysentery, he was obliged to return to England in 1883. On his recovery he was consecrated bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa (June 1884), and in January 1885 started again for the scene of his mission, and visited Palestine on the way. He reached a spot near Victoria Nyanza in safety. His arrival, however, roused the suspicion of the natives, and under King Mwanga's orders he was lodged in a filthy hut swarming with rats and vermin. After eight days his men were murdered, and on Oct. 29, 1885 he himself was speared in both sides, his last words to the soldiers appointed to kill him being, "Go, tell Mwanga I have purchased the road to Uganda with my blood." His Last Journals were edited in 1888. See also Life by E. C. Dawson (1887) ; and W. G. Berry, Bishop Hannington (1908).