Colonel Sir Herbert Stuart Sankey KBE CVO VD JP DL (4 May 1854 – 5 April 1940)[1] was a British barrister and politician.
[1][2] The son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. T. Sankey, he was educated at Marlborough School and Christ Church, Oxford before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1878.
[1][2] Sankey practised as a barrister on the South Eastern Circuit, and as a counsel for HM Treasury.
[1][2] In 1913 he was appointed as Remembrancer of the City of London, a position he held until 1927.
[1][2] He was also a governor, deputy-treasurer and almoner of Christ's Hospital; a governor of The Regent Street Polytechnic and a member of the board of management of St Mary's Hospital.