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Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron HackingOBE PC DL JP (4 August 1884 – 29 July 1950) was a BritishConservative politician.[1]
Educated atGiggleswick School andManchester University, he was commissioned in theEast Lancashire Regiment in August 1914 and served two years inFrance duringWorld War I. He was mentioned in despatches and was appointed to theOrder of the British Empire as an Officer (OBE) in the1919 New Year Honours.[2][3] InWorld War II, from 1940 to 1944, he served with the 5th Battalion SurreyHome Guard.
Hacking was elected asUnionistMember of Parliament (MP) for theChorley Division ofLancashire inDecember 1918 and sat for the constituency untilJune 1945.
He wasParliamentary Private Secretary to SirJames Craig at the Ministry of Pensions in 1920 and at the Admiralty from 1920 to 1921; then to SirLaming Worthington-Evans asSecretary of State for War from 1921 to 1922.He wasVice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1922 to 1924 and from November 1924 to December 1925; ConservativeWhip, 1922–1925.
He held junior ministerial office as ParliamentaryUnder-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and Representative of theOffice of Works in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1927; asSecretary for Overseas Trade,Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, andParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1927–1929; as ParliamentaryUnder-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1933–1934; asFinancial Secretary to the War Office, 1934–1935; and as ParliamentaryUnder-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1935–1936.
He appointed to be aJustice of the Peace andDeputy Lieutenant for the County of Surrey in 1940.[4] He was awarded theFreedom of the Borough ofChorley on 30 November 1946.[5]
He was created aBaronet,of Altham in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the1938 Birthday Honours,[6] was sworn of thePrivy Council in the1929 Dissolution Honours[7] and was raised to the peerage asBaron Hacking,of Chorley in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the1945 Dissolution Honours.[8]
He was a member of Empire Parliamentary Delegation to South Africa, 1924; chairman ofHome Office Committee on Compensation forSilicosis, 1926; chairman of Home Office Committee on Taxicabs (Conditions of Licensing, etc.), 1927; chairman of Committee on redistribution ofRoyal Ordnance Factories, 1934; chancellor of thePrimrose League, 1931; vice-chairman,National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1930–1932; government delegate toLeague of Nations, Geneva, 1933;chairman Conservative Party Organisation, 1936–1942; memberGeneral Medical Council, 1932–1947.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forChorley 1918–1945 | Succeeded by |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1922–1924 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1924–1925 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1925–1927 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs jointly withGodfrey Locker-Lampson 1927–1929 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1933–1935 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Financial Secretary to the War Office 1934–1935 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs 1935–1936 | Succeeded by |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Hacking 1945–1950 | Succeeded by |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baronet (of Altham) 1938–1950 | Succeeded by |
