Early Life and Family
Hanson was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, the son of Brian Hanson (deceased) a forklift truck driver and Glenda Hanson a personnel records clerk, one younger sister, Helen. David was educated at Roscoe Primary School in Liverpool, Grange Primary School in Winsford and the Verdin Comprehensive School (now called Verdin High School, and known as Winsford Verdin Grammar School before 1970) on Grange Lane in Winsford, Cheshire and the University of Hull where he received a BA in 1978 and a CertEd in 1980, whilst in Hull he was the vice president of the university Students' union and a member of Hull University Labour Club. He began his career with the Cooperative Society in 1980 as a trainee manager, becoming a manager in Plymouth in 1981 until he joined Spastics Society, now scope, in 1982. He left the Spastics Society in 1989 when he was appointed as a director at the Society for the prevention of Solvent Abuse.
He married Margaret Rose Mitchell, who has also been a politician in Vale Royal. She was narrowly defeated at the 1999 Eddisbury By-election.. They have two sons, Thom (born July 1987) and Daniel (born March 2003) and two daughters, Amy (born August 1988) and Alys (born August 1990).
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