| Code | DS/UK/252 |
| Surname | Hankey |
| Forenames | Thomson |
| Dates | 1805 - 1893 |
| Epithet | Deputy Governor (1849-51); Governor (1851-53) |
| Activity | Hankey worked for his father's firm of West Indian merchants and was a Director of the Bank from 1835 until 1848. He was Deputy Governor from 1849 until 1851 and Governor between 1851 and 1853. Hankey was Liberal MP for Peterborough (1853-68, 1874-80). His great-nephew Ernest Harvey was Deputy Governor of the Bank from 1929 to 1936. |
| Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
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