Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking

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Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking OBE JP (4 August 1884 – 29 July 1950) was a British Conservative politician.

Educated at Giggleswick School and Manchester University, he was commissioned in the East Lancashire Regiment in August 1914; served two years in France. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the OBE.

Hacking was elected as Unionist Member of Parliament for the Chorley Division of Lancashire 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 1920-1921; then to Sir Laming Worthington-Evans as Secretary of State for War from 1921-1922. He was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1922-1924 and from November 1924-December 1925; Conservative Whip, 1922-1925.

He held junior ministerial office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and Representative of the Office of Works in the House of Commons from 1925-1927; as Secretary for Overseas Trade, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1927-1929; as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1933-1934; as Financial Secretary to the War Office, 1934-1935; and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1935-1936.

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 Royal Ordnance Factories, 1934; Chancellor of the Primrose League, 1931; Vice-Chairman, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1930-1932; Government Delegate to League of Nations, Geneva, 1933; Chairman Conservative Party Organisation, 1936-1942; Member General Medical Council, 1932-1947; 5th Bn Surrey Home Guard, 1940-1944.

He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Surrey.

He was created a Baronet in 1938, a Privy Counsellor in 1929 and raised to the Peerage as Baron Hacking, of Chorley in the County of Lancaster, in 1945.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Henry Flemming Hibbert	Member of Parliament for Chorley 1918–1945	Succeeded by Clifford Kenyon
Political offices
Preceded by William Dudley Ward	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1922–1924	Succeeded by John Davison
Preceded by John Davison	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1924–1925	Succeeded by George Hennessy
Preceded by Godfrey Locker-Lampson	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1925–1927	Succeeded by Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson
Preceded by Godfrey Locker-Lampson	Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs jointly with Godfrey Locker-Lampson 1927–1929	Succeeded by Hugh Dalton
Preceded by Oliver Stanley	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1933–1935	Succeeded by Harry Crookshank
Preceded by Duff Cooper	Financial Secretary to the War Office 1934–1935	Succeeded by Sir Victor Warrender
Preceded by Lord Stanley	Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs 1935–1936	Succeeded by Marquess of Hartington
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Hacking 1945–1950	Succeeded by Douglas Eric Hacking