Hansard

Meaning

Noun

• A member of a Hanse, or a resident of a Hanse town.
• The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.

Origin

• From Hansard, the surname of Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), an English printer who inherited the business of printing reports of parliamentary debates and proceedings from his father Luke Hansard (1752–1828). T. C. Hansard added his name to the title of the reports from 1829, and from about 1859 they began to be referred to generically as “Hansards”.