Denis Hanley

Denis Augustine Hanley (26 July 1903^[1] – 10 June 1980) was a British electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician.^[2][3]

The son of Edmund Hanley of Kintbury, Berkshire,^[2][4] he was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2][3]

At the 1931 general election he was elected as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Deptford, unseating the long-serving Labour incumbent, C. W. Bowerman.^[3]

In January 1935 he was found guilty of being drunk in charge of a motor car and was disqualified from driving.^[5] When an election was called later that year he choose not to defend his seat.^[6][3]

From 1938 to 1954 he was employed by the Royal Naval Scientific Service.^[3][2]