Denis Augustine Hanley (1903 – 10 June 1980) was a

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electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician. The son of Edmund Hanley of

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, he was educated at

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and

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. At the

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he was elected as Conservative Party

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for

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, unseating the long-serving Labour incumbent,

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. In January 1935 he was found guilty of being drunk in charge of a motor car and was disqualified from driving. When an election was called later that year he choose not to defend his seat. From 1938-54 he was employed by the Royal Naval Scientific Service.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanley, Denis 1903 births 1980 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 People educated at Downside School British electrical engineers People from Kintbury Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge