Baron Hankey, of The Chart in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1939 for the civil servant Sir Maurice Hankey

Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey

Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A...

, Cabinet Secretary

Cabinet Secretary

A Cabinet Secretary is almost always a senior official who provides services and advice to a Cabinet of Ministers. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service...

 from 1920 to 1938. His eldest son, the second Baron, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Sweden between 1954 to 1960. the title is held by the latter's eldest son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1996. He is an architect.

Donald Hankey

Donald Hankey

Donald William Alers Hankey was an English soldier best known for two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in World War I both titled A Student in Arms.-Biography:...

, brother of the first Baron, was a soldier best known for two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in the First World War. The Hon. Henry Hankey, third son of the first Baron, was British Ambassador to Panama between 1966 and 1969.

Barons Hankey (1939)

• Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
  Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
  Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A...
  
   (1877–1963)
• Robert Maurice Alers Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey
  Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey
  Robert Maurice Alers Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey KCMG, KCVO , was a British diplomat and public servant.-Background and education:...
  
  (1905–1996)
• Donald Robin Alers Hankey, 3rd Baron Hankey (b. 1938)