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1839 - 1921
Walter, the second child and only son of Stephen Alers Hankey, was born in 1839 at Marylebone.
Walter Childe Alers Hankey received the Royal Humane society silver medal under RHS case no 15054: On 29 April 1851 Charles Childe (16) and Alers Hankey (11) were collecting aquatic insects in a pond in Sydenham, during which activity Childe slipped into the pond. Unable to swim, he immediately sank. Alers Hankey got over the railings and jumped into the pond fully clothed. Swimming to the centre of the pond, he managed to push Childe until he got him to the bank.
The RHS General Court on 9 July 1851 confirmed the award of the Society’s silver medal.
Born in 1839 the only son of Stephen A Hankey, of Brighton and London, Walter Childe Alers Hankey was educated at Corpus Christi College Oxford, to which he matriculated on 8 June 1858.
Hankey graduated with a BA in 1864 and went on to gain an MA in 1865. He married Caroline Jane Anne, the second daughter of Captain William Rochfort, RN, on 27 August 1867 (Belfast News-Letter, Friday 6 September 1867).
Together they lived Beaulieu, Sussex. As well as prominent business interests (his uncle was Governor of the Bank of England), Alers Hankey would become a JP for Sussex and a Colonel with the Sussex Artillery. He was Commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment.
He was married on 27 Aug 1867 to Caroline Jane Anne Rochfort of Adisham, Kent, by whom he had two surviving children:
1874-1940 |
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Margaret Frances Louisa (Reverend Mother) |
1871-1959 |
He lived at Brighton and at 39 Redcliffe Gardens (where there were seven staff in 1881).
He died on 1 Jun 1921.
His wife Caroline Jane Anne passed away on 4 March 1897 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, at the age of 61. They had been married 29 years.
Among the yachts that Walter owned were:
Adeona, schooner, 160 tons and 94ft (1884-86)
Baltimore, yacht
Alvina, two-masted steam yacht, 257 tons
Alvina - 257 tons - 1902
Walters house at Brighton
Col Walter Childe Alers Hankey