Frank
Hugh
Hann
Born in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Hann
and Elizabeth (Sharp) Hann
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 75
in Perth, Western Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Feb 2021
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Biography
Frank Hann was born in Wiltshire, England.
Frank Hann is Notable.
Frank Hann was born in Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, in 1846, the son of Joseph Hann and Elizabeth Sharp.[1] In 1851 when Frank was five years old the family emigrated to the Westernport district in Victoria, Australia.
Frank farmed cattle in Queensland for about 30 years but fell into disgrace because of his especially barbaric treatment of indigenous Australians. Penniless, in 1896 he set off overland to Western Australia with a small party of indigenous workers and 67 horses. He clearly had a passion for exploration as two years later he penetrated the King Leopold mountain range in WA, named some rivers and found some good grazing land. However he had no funds to buy stock and went to live in Perth for four years before returning to prospecting. He explored the inland desert, sponsored by the WA government, opening a track to the South Australia border in 1903 and investigating a rumour of gold in 1907.
An interview published in the Western Mail in 1909, in which he boasted of his persecution of aboriginals, earned him the nickname "Headhunter Hann" and led to police investigations and the withdrawal of government funding, thus ending his exploring career.
In his last years he seems to have changed his attitude and corresponded with anthropologist Daisy May Bates about improvements to the welfare of the indigenous peoples. He died unmarried at his home in Cottesloe, Perth in 1921. [2]
Sources
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ8J-851 : 19 September 2020), Joseph Hann in entry for Frank Hugh Hann, 1845.
- ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 4 .[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hann-frank-hugh-3906/
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