Robert William Hanbury

Robert William Hanbury PC (24 February 1845 – 28 April 1903) was a British Conservative politician.

[1][4] During the Liberal stay in power from 1892 to 1895 Hanbury was a vigorous critic of William Ewart Gladstone's Second Home Rule Bill from a financial perspective.

When the Conservatives came to power in 1895 under Lord Salisbury, he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury[1] and sworn of the Privy Council.

[1] In August 1901 he received the Freedom of the City of Glasgow for services rendered in connection with the effort to obtain a licence to establish a municipal telephone exchange.

[8] Hanbury married firstly Ismena Tindal, daughter of Thomas Morgan Gepp, in 1869.