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Beaumont Hankey (1821-1909)
Third surviving son of Thomson Hankey of Mincing Lane, Beaumont was born on 13 Sep 1821 and was baptised on 1 Nov 1821 at Hackney, St John. He built Richmond House, Wimbledon Park Side, and later lived at Clay Hill, Epsom (1855), Holdenhurst, Hampshire (1881), Heywood, Maidenhead and 43 Lexham Gardens. He was married on 2 May 1846 at Hove to Eleanor Catherine Atkins-Bowyer (1822-1892), daughter of WA Bowyer of the Manor Estate, Clapham, and by her had four sons and five daughters, of whom the following survived:
Rev Beaumont Wentworth |
1848-1905 |
Ed. at Eton. 31 years Priest at Graham Street. d unm; bur at Brompton Cemetery |
Evelyn Mary |
1853-1934 |
Of 43 Lexham Gardens. d unm |
1856-1931 |
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Helen Frances |
1857-1906 |
m 1879 William Edwards (1855-85)m 1888 Major WH Davidson (1840-1899) (grandson of Henry Davidson of Tulloch), whose brother in law Arthur Chapman was a close friend of Reginald Hankey |
Mabel |
1858- |
m 1878 Martin Fletcher Luther - Issue |
Beaumont Hankey
Beaumont Hankey was a partner of the wine merchants Hankey Bannister & Co.
The precise date of the foundation of the firm of Hankey Bannister has not been recorded, but it was certainly in vigorous prosperity towards the end of the eighteenth century, providing wine for the table of the Prince of Wales. ... The place of business was at that time in Adelphi Arches, the superb vaults then newly erected by Robert Adam to support his exquisite Terrace overlooking the Thames. There, untroubled by the vibrations of traffic or the swiftly changing temperature of our capricious climate, the wine lay year by year maturing in peace and darkness. Later the offices were removed to St James’s for the convenience of fashionable customers but Adelphi still housed the cellars until 1936.
Evelyn Waugh goes on to quote from the books of Hankey Bannister, ‘opened at random at the year 1813’.
The whisky bottles sold by Hankey Bannister in France claim that the partnership was founded in 1757 - although this goes back to the time of Sir Thomas Hankey. By the mid 1800s Beaumont Hankey was in partnership with GH Tod Heatley, and in 1884 Beaumont Hankey took over. The firm continued to expand by amalgamation with other long-established wine merchants; they moved from John Street to Sackville Street, where they had a fashionable clientele, and held a Royal Warrant from George V. Beaumont was succeeded by his son, Douglas Hankey, on his death on 18 Feb 1909; he left an estate of £69,000.