Baron Hankey

Baron Hankey, of The Chart in the County of Surrey,[1] is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was created in 1939 for the civil servant Sir Maurice Hankey, Cabinet Secretary from 1920 to 1938.

His eldest son, the second Baron, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Sweden between 1954 and 1960.

Donald Hankey, brother of the first Baron, was a soldier best known for two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in the First World War.

The heir presumptive to the title is the present holder's younger brother, the Hon.