Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey

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Cabinet Secretary
In office 1916 – August 1938
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald Neville Chamberlain
Preceded by	Inaugural holder
Succeeded by	Sir Edward Bridges
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 14 May 1940 – 20 July 1941
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	The Lord Tryon
Succeeded by	Duff Cooper
Personal details
Born	(1877-04-01)1 April 1877 Biarritz, France
Died	26 January 1963(1963-01-26) (aged 85)[1] Redhill, Surrey, England

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In the estimation of his biographer John F. Naylor, Hankey held to the "certainties of a late Victorian imperialist, whose policies sought to maintain British domination abroad and to avoid as far as possible British entanglement within Europe. His patriotism stands inviolable, but his sensitivity to processes of historical change proved limited". Naylor found, "Hankey did not altogether grasp the virulence of fascism... except as a military threat to Britain; nor did he ever quite comprehend the changing face of domestic politics which Labour's emergence as a party of government entailed.... In these shortcomings Hankey was typical of his generation and background; that his responsibility was greater lay in the fact that he was better informed than nearly any of his contemporaries".^[2][3]

Personal life

The third son of R. A. Hankey, Maurice Hankey was born at

In 1908, Hankey was appointed Naval Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence. He became Secretary to the Committee in 1912, a position that he would hold for 26 years. In November 1914, he took on the additional duty of Secretary of the War Council. In that function, he took notice of the ideas of Major Ernest Swinton to build a tracked armoured vehicle and brought them to the attention of Winston Churchill on 25 December 1914. This led to the eventual creation of the Landship Committee.

In December 1916,

In July 1941, Lord Hankey was moved to the position of Paymaster General, but the following year, he was dropped from the government altogether. He continued to hold other positions in both the public and private sectors until his death.

Post-war writings

After

In the 1912 Birthday Honours, Hankey was appointed to the Order of the Bath as a Companion.^[7] He was then promoted within the same order as a Knight Commander in 1916^[8] and as a Knight Grand Cross in 1919.^[9] In the 1929 Birthday Honours, Sir Maurice was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George as a Knight Grand Cross.^[10] In the 1934 New Year Honours, Sir Maurice was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order as a Knight Grand Cross.^[11]

In the

Coat of arms of Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey

Crest A wolf's head erased at the neck Erminois, gorged with a collar wavy Azure. Escutcheon Per pale Azure and Gules, a wolf salient Erminois vulned on the shoulder of the second, a bordure wavey of the third. Supporters Dexter: A fallow deer resting the sinister hind foot Proper on a millrind Sable; Sinister: An alpine chamois resting the dexter hind foot Proper on a like millrind. Motto Per Sagitatem Pax Cum Justitia[16]

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