Colonel Sir Herbert Stuart Sankey KBE CVO VD JP DL (4 May 1854 – 5 April 1940)[1] was a British barrister and politician.[1][2] The son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. T. Sankey, he was educated at Marlborough School and Christ Church, Oxford before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1878.[1] He married Josephine Annesley in 1884, and they had two daughters.[1][2]