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

The son of Edmund Hanley of Kintbury, Berkshire,[1][3] he was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1][2]

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.[2]

In January 1935 he was found guilty of being drunk in charge of a motor car and was disqualified from driving.[4] When an election was called later that year he choose not to defend his seat.[5][2]

From 1938-54 he was employed by the Royal Naval Scientific Service.[2][1]

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