Hankey Bannister Regent William IV and the Dukes of Norfolk and Queensberry and received a Royal Warrant under George V. Hankey Bannister was a favourite with war-time Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and British writer Evelyn Waugh. During the Top Gear Burma Special Richard Hammond stated a preference for Hankey Bannister, with Jeremy Clarkson declaring it to be the "third best whisky in Northern Burma". Hankey Bannister Original contains single malts from all five of the Inver House Distilleries: Hankey Bannister Hankey Bannister is a blended scotch whisky produced by Inver House Distillers and owned by International Beverage Holdings Ltd. Named after
Roger Bannister UK poll conducted by Channel 4 in 2002, the British public voted Bannister's historic sub-4-minute mile as number 13 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments. Bannister is the subject of the ESPN film "Four Minutes" (2005). This film is a dramatisation, its major departures from the factual record being the creation of a fictional character as Bannister's coach, who was actually Franz Stampfl, an Austrian, and secondly his meeting his wife, Moyra Jacobsson, in the early 1950s when in fact they met in London only a few months before the Miracle Mile itself took place. Bannister was