MCROWBOROUGH,JAN.12: Mr. William Tankard-Hahnemann , Great great grandson of Dr.Samuel Hahnemann passed away at his home in Crowborough, East Sussex on 12th January 2009, his 87th birthday.
As a young boy, Mr. Hahnemann remembered his mother telling him of her visits to ‘Uncle Leo’ at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He later knew that he was Dr. Leopold Suss-Hahnemann, Dr Samuel Hahnemann’s grandson, the only son of his favourite daughter, Amelie (1789-1881). Dr. Suss-Hahnemann was the only member of the Hahnemann family to be present at Samuel Hahnemann’s funeral, apart from Hahnemann’s second wife Melanie, in Paris in 1843 and at his subsequent re-burial in the Peré Lachaise Cemetery in east Paris. Subsequently Leopold emigrated to England, when he practised homeopathy in London. He retired to the Isle of Wight and died there at the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Dr Leopold Suss-Hahnemann’s youngest daughter, Amalia had two children, Winifred (born in 1898) and Herbert. William Herbert Tankard-Hahnemann was Winifred’s son.
After serving as a Major in the British Army during World War II, Mr. Hahnemann had a distinguished career in the city of London. He was honoured by his appointment as a
Freeman of the city of London. On his retirement to Crowborough, he became the patron of the British Institute of Homeopathy in 1987. Since then he has given his time generously to promoting classical and modern homeopathy in the United Kingdom and around the world. Ambassadorial tact and diplomacy, his equanimity and gentlemanly behaviour were legendary and he never baulked at anything he was asked to do in the service of homeopathy.
Mr Hahnemann also attended many homeopathic events in the United Kingdom including, as a Life Fellow, an Annual Congress of the Homeopathic Medical Association and award ceremonies of the British Institute, including events at Los Angeles, Toronto, New Delhi, Paris and the birth place of his great, great, great grandfather, Samuel Hahnemann, Meissen.