Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (4 August 1884 – 29 July 1950) was a British

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politician. DouglasHacking

Early life and military career

Educated at

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and

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, he was commissioned in the

East Lancashire Regiment The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, a line infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and 59th (2nd Nottingh ...

in August 1914 and served two years in

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during

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. He was mentioned in despatches and was appointed to the

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as an Officer (OBE) in the

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. In

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, from 1940 to 1944, he served with the 5th Battalion Surrey

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Political career

Hacking was elected as Unionist

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(MP) for the Chorley Division of

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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

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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

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, and Representative of the

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in the House of Commons from 1925 to 1927; as

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, and

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, 1927–1929; as Parliamentary

, 1933–1934; as

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, 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. He was awarded the

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of Chorley on 30 November 1946. He was created a Baronet, ''of Altham in the County Palatine of Lancaster'' in the 1938 Birthday Honours, was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1929 Dissolution Honours and was raised to the peerage as Baron Hacking, ''of Chorley in the County Palatine of Lancaster'' in the 1945 Dissolution Honours.

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

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, 1934; chancellor of the

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, 1931; vice-chairman,

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, 1930–1932; government delegate to

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, Geneva, 1933; chairman Conservative Party Organisation, 1936–1942; member General Medical Council, 1932–1947.

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