John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer

John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer (1809–1881), was an English politician and poet, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and an advocate of political reform. He published Fra Cipolla and Other Poems (1839) and Sonnets (1840), and died at Knotley Hall, near Tunbridge Wells.

The sonnet here is the one printed under his name in A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895).