John Alexander Hankey

Son of John Peter Hankey (partner in Hankey, Hall, Hankey and Alers) and Isabella Alexander, sister of Sir William Alexander (Chief Baron of the Exchequer), grandson of John Hankey and great-grandson of Sir Thomas Hankey and his wife Sarah Barnard. Partner in West India merchant firm of Thomson Hankey & Company (q.v.), cousin of of Thomson Hankey junior (q.v.) and nephew of Thomson Hankey (q.v.). Sheriff of Sussex.

1. Baptised St Dunstan in the East 28/06/1804. Married Ellen Blake 30/08/1825 St George Hanover Square. For a photograph from 1855 see Nicholas Draper, The Price of Emancipation. Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009), Plate 14, p. 217; and National Portrait Gallery, NPG P120(34).

2. Will of John Alexander Hankey formerly of Mincing Lane but late of Balcombe Place Sussex who died 29/05/1881 at Dijon proved by Blake Alexander Hankey and Rodolph Alexander Hankey the sons and Howard Warburton Elphinstone, personal estate £154,982 16s 4d. Between 1847 and 1852, Hankey was the occupier of The Cedars, Roehampton.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]; Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]. The NPG photograph is an albumen print by Maull & Polyblank (1855); 7 3/4 in. x 5 3/4 in. (197 mm x 146 mm).

2. National Probate Calendar 1881; Dorian Gerhold Villas and mansions of Roehampton and Putney Heath Wandsworth Historical Society 1997.