Cecil Hanbury

Sir Cecil Hanbury was a British Conservative Party politician, the son of Sir Thomas Hanbury and brother of Lady Hilda [Beatrice Currie|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. He was elected at the 1924 [United Kingdom general election|1924 general election] as Member of [Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament] 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, aged 66.
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 of Italy|Order of the Crown]. He was knighted on 11 July 1935. After his death a memorial plaque was erected in La Mortola, Ventimiglia, where his father owned an estate.