Henry Hamilton Loughnan (c. 1849 – 8 June 1939) was a New Zealand lawyer, prominent in Christchurch.

Loughnan was born in about 1849 in Patna, British India, where his father Robert James Loughnan was a judge. Robert Loughnan (1841–1934) was his elder brother. Henry Loughnan received his education at Stonyhurst College. The Loughnan family emigrated to Melbourne in 1868 and some short time afterwards, they settled in New Zealand. Loughan was a cricketer. He played in four first-class matches for Canterbury from 1870 to 1886.

Henry Loughnan

Loughnan was then articled as a lawyer, first under Justice Henry Barnes Gresson and then under Justice Alexander James Johnston. In 1876, he was admitted as a barrister and two years later, he became a partner of William Izard.

Henry Loughnan

In a by-election in May 1896, Loughnan was elected to Christchurch City Council in the Richmond ward. He was a member of the city council for 13 years.

Henry Loughnan

Loughnan died on 8 June 1939 at his home in the Christchurch suburb of Avonside.

See also

List of Canterbury representative cricketers

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1840s births

1939 deaths

British people in colonial India

New Zealand cricketers

Canterbury cricketers

Cricketers from Patna

19th-century New Zealand lawyers

20th-century New Zealand lawyers