Thomson Hankey

Thomson Hankey (15 June 1805 – 13 January 1893) was a British merchant, a banker and a Liberal Party politician.

Hankey was the eldest son of Thomson Hankey senior from Portland Place in London, and his wife Martha, the daughter of Benjamin Harrison from Clapham Common. He became a merchant in his father's business in the City of London and a director of the Bank of England, and then as its Governor from 1851 to 1853. He married Apolline Agatha Alexander on 4 February 1831; she was the daughter of William Alexander and half-sister of Sir William Alexander.

He received compensation under the Slave Compensation Act 1837 for freed enslaved people for the Grenville Vale estate in Grenada.

At the 1852 general election, Hankey unsuccessfully contested the borough of Boston in Lincolnshire. He then contested the by-election in June 1853 for the City of Peterborough, where he lost by a margin of 21 votes (out of a total 451) to the Liberal George Hammond Whalley. Whalley had been returned for Peterborough at a by-election in December 1852, but an election petition was lodged and his election was subsequently declared void on 8 June 1853

Hankey was re-elected in 1857, 1859 and 1865, but was defeated at the 1868 general election by the Liberal William Wells. but was defeated in 1880. but when Hampden Whalley resigned in June 1883, Hankey did not contest the resulting by-election,

He was also a justice of the peace (JP) for Middlesex, Kent and the City of London, and a member of commission of lieutenancy for the City of London.

He died on 13 January 1893, aged 88. In his later years, his advanced age prevented him from taking any active part in public life.