Cecil Hanbury

{{Short description|British Conservative Party politician (1871–1937)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = Sir Cecil Hanbury | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} | image = Cecil Hanbury in 1929.jpg | caption = Hanbury in 1929 | office = Member of Parliament <br /> for North Dorset | parliament = | majority = | term_start = 29 October 1924 | term_end = 10 June 1937 | predecessor = John Emlyn-Jones | successor = Angus Hambro | birth_date = {{birth date|1871|3|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Shanghai | death_date = {{death date and age|1937|6|10|1871|3|10|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = Unionist | other_party = | spouse = {{marriage|Effield Dorothy Cecil Symons-Jeune|1913}} | relations = | children = 3 | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | website = }} [[File:Cecil Hanbury memorial plaque, La Mortola.jpg|thumb|Memorial plaque to Hanbury in Mortola Inferiore]]

'''Sir Cecil Hanbury''' (10 March 1871 – 10 June 1937)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Dcommons2.htm | title = House of Commons constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2) | work = Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages | accessdate = 2009-04-25 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171011182617/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Dcommons2.htm | archive-date = 11 October 2017 }}</ref> was a British Conservative Party politician, the son of Sir Thomas Hanbury and brother of Lady Hilda Currie.

Hanbury was educated at Fettes College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and for most of his working life was a partner in Ward, Hanbury & Company, china merchants in London and Shanghai.<ref name="WWMP">{{cite book |last1=Stenton |first1=Michael |last2=Lees |first2=Stephen |title=Who's Who of British Members of Parliament |volume=III |date=1979 |publisher=Harvester Press |location=Brighton |isbn=0855273259 |pages=148–9}}</ref> He was elected at the 1924 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Northern division of Dorset, having unsuccessfully contested the seat at both the 1922 and 1923 elections. Hanbury was re-elected at the next three general elections, and died in office in 1937,<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |orig-date=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=335 }}</ref> aged 66.<ref name="rayment-hc" />

Hanbury was sympathetic to fascism, and in the 1930s he declared his support for Mussolini and the Abyssinian Campaign, for which he was made a Grand Officer of the Italian Order of the Crown.<ref name="WWMP"/> He was knighted on 11 July 1935.<ref name="gazette-34180">{{cite web|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34180/supplements/4600|title=Gazette Issue 34180|date=16 July 1935|work=The London Gazette|pages=8|accessdate=2009-04-25}}</ref> After his death a memorial plaque was erected in La Mortola, Ventimiglia, where his father owned an estate.

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for North Dorset | years = 1924 – 1937 | before = John Emlyn-Jones | after = Angus Hambro }} {{s-end}}

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