• Robert Maurice Alers Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, KCMG, KCVO (4 July 1905 – 28 October 1996) was a British diplomat and public servant. Born on 4 July 1905...
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    Baron Hankey (1877–1963) Robert Maurice Alers Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey (1905–1996) Donald Robin Alers Hankey, 3rd Baron Hankey (b. 1938) The heir presumptive...
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    Adele Änggård (category Daughters of barons)
    interpretations on early European civilizations. Adele Hankey was daughter of Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey. From 1948 to 1953 she studied ballet at the Elmhurst...
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    Sir Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea. They had two children, including Charles, 2nd Baron Tryon. "Tryon, 1st Baron". Who Was Who. Oxford University...
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  • Irving Johnson, American sailor and author (d. 1991) 1905 – Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, British diplomat and public servant (d. 1996) 1905 – Lionel...
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    Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville and his wife Lady Rosa Nugent. His brothers were Hon. George Greville-Nugent MP (who married Cecil Aitcheson Hankey, a daughter...
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  • and to Germany; later Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, Ambassador to Sweden 1954–1960 Sir James Hudson, Ambassador...
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  • and in 1938 he was appointed Cabinet Secretary, succeeding Sir Maurice Hankey. Bridges remained in this post until 1946, when he was made Permanent Secretary...
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    2004), [1], accessed 1 Feb 2011. Fiona Pogson, ‘Cottington, Francis, first Baron Cottington (1579?–1652)’, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" (Oxford...
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  • Edmund Hall-Patch 1952–1960: Sir Hugh Ellis-Rees 1960–1965: Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey 1965–1968: Sir Edgar Cohen 1968–1971: Sir John Chadwick 1971–1977:...
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    26 October – Derek Tangye, author (born 1912) 28 October – Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, peer and diplomat (born 1905) 3 November – Barry Porter, politician...
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  • Clorinda Málaga de Prado, First Lady of Peru (d. 1993) July 4 Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, British diplomat, public servant (d. 1996) Irving Johnson...
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  • June 12, 1957 in Toronto, Ontario, the eldest child of Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, and his wife, Marilyn Lavis. He has a sister named Taylor...
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    Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, CH, PC (born 22 February 1960), known informally as Tom Strathclyde, is a British...
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  • the Guinness family, he is the elder of the two sons of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, and his first wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley). Until his...
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    attempt by Hankey to find a practical way of internationalising civil aviation had failed to which Cecil replied that he "did not think Hankey was a very...
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    House in Hertfordshire, England. He is the son of David Lytton Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold, and succeeded his father in the Cobbold barony in May 2022. He...
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    Conrad Byron Alers-Hankey (a cousin of Alexander Maurice Alers Hankey, and brothers Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey (the creator of the...
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    David Garro Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne, PC (born 31 March 1941), is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the longest-serving member...
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  • Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild (born 12 July 1971), is a British-born financier who settled in Switzerland and is a member...
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    of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, who served as British prime minister. His father was Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech...
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  • 6 October 1955, aged four, when his father, Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh, died aged 39. His mother, Christian Mary McEwen, Dowager Lady...
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    naval attempt to force the Dardanelles "a ridiculous farce". Robertson told Hankey on 1 June that Sir John French was "always wanting to do reckless and impossible...
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    Reginald Greville-Nugent (category Younger sons of barons)
    Greville-Nugent MP (who married Cecil Aitcheson Hankey, a daughter of Lt Gen Henry Aitchison Hankey), Hon. Robert Southwell Greville-Nugent (who died unmarried)...
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    Robert Bertrand Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville DL (born 10 July 1958), is a British publisher, author and guardian of Knole in Kent, which has been...
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    Maurice Raymond Gifford became the next owner. He was the son of Robert Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford and became a British Military Officer. He fought in several...
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  • old. Aged fifteen, he became the 3rd Baron Brocket on the death of his grandfather, Arthur Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket, also inheriting Brocket Hall...
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  • Hugh George Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere (/ˈtʃʌmli/; born 18 January 1934), styled The Honourable Hugh George Cholmondeley from birth until 1979,...
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    1939–1940 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 1940 Office vacant 1940–1941 Maurice Hankey 1941–1942 William Jowitt 1942 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Baron Cherwell...
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    born 16 June 1946. He is the eldest of the five children of Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever, and Lady Irene Haig. Astor succeeded to the peerage after...
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