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Authorised form of nameHankey; Maurice Pascal Alers (1877 - 1963); 1st Baron Hankey of the Chart
Dates1877 - 1963
Date of birth01 April 1877
Date of death26/01/1963
ActivityHonours:
CB 1912; KCB 1916; GCB 1919; GCMG 1929; GCVO 1934; Baron 1939
Membership categoryStatute 12
Date of election18/06/1942
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1964 vol 10 pp 137-146, plate, by B F J Schonland
References:
William McGucken, 'The Royal Society and the Genesis of the Scientific Advisory Committee to Britain's War Cabinet, 1939-1940' in NR 1978-9 vol 33 pp 87-115
CodeNA4388
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1942/21Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers, 1st Baron Hankey of the Chart: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PB/4/8/22Correspondence with Lord Hankey re bombing policy1942
IM/GA/WS/2857Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers, 1st Baron Hankey of the Chartnd
MS/525/5/2/22Letter from Lt Colonel Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Committee of Imperial Defence, 2 Whitehall Gardens, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House26 April 1915
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