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 longer than it might otherwise have been due to the effect of the Second World War in interrupting athletic progress in the combatant countries. The Swedish runners, Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson, in a series of head-to-head races in the period 1942–45, had already lowered the world mile record by five seconds to the pre-Bannister record. Knowledgeable track fans are still most impressed by the fact that Bannister ran a four-minute mile on very low-mileage training by modern standards. Just 46 days later, on 21 June 1954, Bannister's record was broken by his rival Landy in Turku, Finland, with a