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Thomas Hankey (1791-1879)

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Thomas Hankey

Second son of Thomas Hankey and his wife Elizabeth nee Weaver, Thomas was born on 2 Jan 1791 at Fetcham Park and baptised on 24 Jan at Fetcham. Aged only two when his father died, Tom was educated at Eton.

Unlike his elder brother, Thomas entered the family bank Hankey & Co. of Fenchurch Street, and by 1817 had become a partner. He was senior partner, probably on the retirement or death of William Alers Hankey. He and his partners William Alers Hankey and Augustus Hankey were owners of the Arcadia estate in Jamaica. Among his other private investments was the purchase on 5 Sep 1840 of various lands at Reigate, known as Fengates, from the Manor of Reigate for £1885 (possibly anticipating the construction of the Reading, Guildford & Reigate Railway).

Thomas was married on 25 Oct 1820 at Hackney, St John to his first cousin once removed Louisa Hankey (1802-1860), eldest child of Thomson and Martha Hankey of Mincing Lane and Dalston. They lived for a time at Hackney, where the eldest child was born in 1822, and had a large house on Clapham Common from about 1824 to 1833; they were at 17 Cumberland Terrace 1833-39, and later at Wimbledon; Coombe near Croydon; 17 Princes Gate; 100 Eaton Place and 71 Chester Square. They are described in the DNB (re Rev Hastings Rashdall) as ‘a prominent Clapham evangelical family’.

Thomas Hankey was Treasurer of The General Domestic Servants’ Benevolent Institution, established in 1846 at 32 Sackville Street.

Thomas and Louisa had seven sons and five daughters:

Marianne	1822-1822	d.inf.
Louisa Frances	1824-1854	Of Hayes, Mx. SP
Thomas Robert	1825-1832	d.inf.
Edward Foster	1828-1829	d. aged 20 months of a bowel complaint
Arthur	1829-1865	d.unm. Buried at Naples
Emily	1829-1865	m 1857 Rev John Rashdall, incumbent of Eaton Chapel,Eaton Square and (1864-69) vicar of Dawlish. He died 1869/70, after which the family moved to Cheltenham. See DNB for their eldest son, Rev Hastings Rashdall
Reginald	1831-1923
Arabella Catherine (Kate)	1832-1886
Herbert	1834-1911
Ernest Thomas	1835-1920	m 1877 Minnah Rowland; 1 dau
Rev. Montagu	1839-1905
Edith Mary	1842-1885	m 1874 Walter Henty

Louisa died on 27 Apr 1860 and was buried on 3 May at Kensal Green in a vault purchased by Thomas Hankey on 30 Apr 1860. She was reinterred at Brompton Cemetery on 15 Nov 1879 under a faculty obtained by her surviving children dated 10 Nov 1879.

Thomas Hankey died on 23 Aug 1879 at 147 Kings Road, Brighton, aged 88, and was buried on 29 Aug, not at Kensal Green but at Brompton Cemetery (East Terrace, 795 South). There is a memorial window to him in Maiden Newton church, placed there by his son Montagu.