Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking

Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking OBE PC DL JP (4 August 1884 – 29 July 1950) was a British Conservative politician.

Lord Hacking

Early life and military career

Educated at Giggleswick School and Manchester University, he was commissioned in the East Lancashire Regiment in August 1914 and served two years in France during World War I. He was mentioned in despatches and was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as an Officer (OBE) in the 1919 New Year Honours.[1][2] In World War II, from 1940 to 1944, he served with the 5th Battalion Surrey Home Guard.

Political career

Hacking was elected as Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chorley Division of Lancashire in December 1918 and sat for the constituency until June 1945.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir James Craig at the Ministry of Pensions in 1920 and at the Admiralty from 1920 to 1921; then to Sir Laming Worthington-Evans as Secretary of State for War from 1921 to 1922. He was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1922 to 1924 and from November 1924 to December 1925; Conservative Whip, 1922–1925.

He held junior ministerial office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and Representative of the Office of Works in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1927; as Secretary for Overseas Trade, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1927–1929; as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1933–1934; as Financial Secretary to the War Office, 1934–1935; and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1935–1936.

He appointed to be a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Surrey in 1940.[3]

He was created a Baronet, of Altham in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the 1938 Birthday Honours,[4] was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1929 Dissolution Honours[5] and was raised to the peerage as Baron Hacking, of Chorley in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the 1945 Dissolution Honours.[6]

Other positions held

He was a Member of Empire Parliamentary Delegation to South Africa, 1924; Chairman of Home Office Committee on Compensation for Silicosis, 1926; Chairman of Home Office Committee on Taxicabs (Conditions of Licensing, etc.), 1927; Chairman of Committee on redistribution of Royal Ordnance Factories, 1934; Chancellor of the Primrose League, 1931; Vice-Chairman, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1930–1932; Government Delegate to League of Nations, Geneva, 1933; Chairman Conservative Party Organisation, 1936–1942; Member General Medical Council, 1932–1947.

Arms
Coat of arms of Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking
Crest
In front of an oak tree eradicated two axes in saltire all Proper.
Escutcheon
Argent on a chevron Azure between three roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper two bird bolts of the field feathered Or.
Supporters
On either side a griffin Gules on the shoulder an escutcheon Argent charged with a blue-bottle (cyanus) stalked and leaved Proper.
Motto
Dominus Providebit [7]

    References
    1. "No. 31092". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1918. p. 8.
    2. "No. 13375". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 January 1919. p. 8.
    3. "No. 34892". The London Gazette. 9 July 1940. p. 4177.
    4. "No. 34529". The London Gazette. 8 July 1938. p. 4399.
    5. "No. 33514". The London Gazette. 5 July 1929. p. 4433.
    6. "No. 37166". The London Gazette. 6 July 1945. p. 3517.
    7. Burke's Peerage. 1949.

    Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Sir Henry Flemming Hibbert    		 Member of Parliament for Chorley
    1918–1945    		 Succeeded by
    Clifford Kenyon
    Political offices
    Preceded by
    William Dudley Ward    		 Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
    1922–1924    		 Succeeded by
    John Davison
    Preceded by
    John Davison    		 Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
    1924–1925    		 Succeeded by
    George Hennessy
    Preceded by
    Godfrey Locker-Lampson    		 Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
    1925–1927    		 Succeeded by
    Vivian Henderson
    Preceded by
    Godfrey Locker-Lampson    		 Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
    jointly with Godfrey Locker-Lampson
    1927–1929    		 Succeeded by
    Hugh Dalton
    Preceded by
    Oliver Stanley    		 Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
    1933–1935    		 Succeeded by
    Harry Crookshank
    Preceded by
    Duff Cooper    		 Financial Secretary to the War Office
    1934–1935    		 Succeeded by
    Sir Victor Warrender
    Preceded by
    Lord Stanley    		 Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
    1935–1936    		 Succeeded by
    The Marquess of Hartington
    Peerage of the United Kingdom
    New creation Baron Hacking
    1945–1950    		 Succeeded by
    Douglas Eric Hacking

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