HANKEY, SIR MAURICE PASCHAL ALERS, G.C.B. (1919) (1877- ), British soldier and politician, was born on April 1, 1877, and educated at Rugby. He joined the Navy in 1895, and served in the Mediterranean from 1899 to 1901. He was then appointed to the Naval Intelligence department (1902 1906) and afterwards served as secretary to the committee of im perial defence (1912), the war cabinet (1916), the imperial war cabinet (1917), the imperial conferences of 1921, 1923 and 1926 and the London conference on reparations (1924). He also acted as secretary to the British delegation at the peace confer ence in 1919, the Washington conference in 1921, and the Genoa conference in 1922. In 1923 he was appointed clerk of the Privy Council. He was made G. C. M. G. in June, 1929.