Person
Thomson Hankey
- Slug
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- Alternative names
- Thomas Hankey, Esq., M.P.
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- Unknown
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Banker, Financial, Merchant, Planter, Politician
Born in 1805 to West Indian merchant Thomson Hankey Sr, whilst little is known about his early life, Hankey would eventually become a Liberal MP, serving as the Member of Parliament for Peterborough in (initially from 1853 to 1868, and again between 1874 and 1880), after a brief stint as the Governor of the Bank of England between 1851 and 1853. Hankey would and beneficiary of the 1837 Slave Compensation Act. Following the abolition of slavery, Hankey would be compensated at least £15,002, for his role as the mortgagee of the Telescope estate in Grenada, and as the owner-in-fee of the Grenville Vale and Crochu estates in Grenada; across these plantations, 524 people were enslaved. Hankey would donate his own library of economic tracts to the City Liberal Club at the end of his life.