Stuart Sankey (barrister)

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Colonel Sir Herbert Stuart Sankey (4 May 1854 – 5 April 1940) was a British barrister and local politician. The son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. T. Sankey, he studied at Marlborough School and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1878. He married Josephine Annesley in 1884, and they had two daughters. Sankey practised as a barrister on the South Eastern Circuit and as counsel for HM Treasury.

He held several legal posts as recorder (a local judge) of Fordwich from 1883 to 1902, Faversham from 1902 to 1905, and Margate from 1905 to 1913. In 1901, he was elected to the London County Council for the City of London and served until 1913, acting as vice-chairman in 1907–08. From 1909 to 1913 he commanded the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps and earned the brevet rank of colonel in 1913.

In 1913 he became Remembrancer of the City of London, a position he held until 1927. He was also a governor, deputy-treasurer and almoner of Christ's Hospital; a governor of The Regent Street Polytechnic; and a member of the board of management of St Mary's Hospital. He was invested as a Commander of the Victorian Order (CVO) in 1918 and named Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1927, along with several foreign honors.