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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hankey, Henry Barnard

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1738089A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Hankey, Henry BarnardWilliam Richard O'Byrne

HANKEY. (Lieutenant, 1845.)

Henry Barnard Hankey is a younger brother of Commander F. T. B. Hankey, R.N. This officer entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 6 March, 1839; and, after serving as Mate in the Britannia 120, and, for three years, in the Agincourt 72, flag-ships of Sir John Acworth Ommanney and Sir Thos. John Cochrane, on the Mediterranean and East India stations, was promoted, 2 July, 1845, to a Lieutenancy in the Hazard 18, Capts. Fras. Philip Egerton, under whom he is still employed. During an expedition conducted in July, 1846, by Sir T. J. Cochrane, against the Sultan of Borneo, Mr. Hankey officiated as Beach-Master, and assisted at the capture and destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries up the river Brune.[1]


  1. Vide Gaz. 1846, pp. 3441-42.