John Hanger was a merchant of Trinity Minories who was Governor of the Bank of England from 1719 to 1721 when the Bank of England was closely involved in the financing of the South Sea Company. His family were closely associated with the hundred of Bray in Berkshire and a memorial to the family exists in St Michael's Church there.

Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine FRS; FSA was an English antiquary, peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1730 to 1734.