Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, First Baron Hankey of the Chart, 1877-1963

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Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey was born on 1 April 1877. His father, Robert Alers Hankey, had emigrated to South Australia as a young man and bought himself a sheep farm at Warcowie. Maurice Hankey’s mother was Helen Bakewell, daughter of Kenneth Bakewell of Adelaide, who was directly descended from Robert Bakewell (1726-1795), celebrated as the first English scientific breeder of cattle (the Leicestershire longhorn) and sheep, as well as for his successful efforts towards the improvement of grasslands by systematic irrigation. After a series of disastrous droughts, Robert Hankey left Australia and retired to live in Brighton. Maurice was his third son; his fourth son, Donald, to whom Maurice was extremely devoted and whom he called ‘the best man I ever knew’ is remembered by many as a man of the deepest religious conviction and of unselfish social service. Donald Hankey’s books, particularly A student in arms , are his memorials; after service in the ranks, he took a commission and was killed on the Somme in 1916. Maurice Hankey, though his career was to lead him along a very different path, had inherited the family tradition of self-effacing service with a strong element of desire for experimentation and improvement in any task he had to perform. He received his school education at Rugby and was commissioned in the Royal Marine Artillery on 1 September 1895.

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