HANCOCK, Albany (son of John Hancock, saddler, Newcastle-on-Tyne, d. 1812). b. Bridge End, Newcastle 24 Dec. 1806; solicitor Newcastle 1830–2; a founder of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field club 1846; F.L.S. 1862; wrote over 70 papers on birds, shells, mollusca, etc. 1836 etc., the first to examine carefully the internal structures of mollusca 1843, gold medallist of Royal soc. 1858; with J. Alder wrote A monograph of the British Nudibranchiate mollusca 7 parts 1845–55. d. 4 St. Mary’s ter. Newcastle 24 Oct. 1873. Trans. Northumberland Nat. Hist. Soc. v, 118, (1875), portrait; Monthly Chronicle of North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp. 568–70, portrait.
HANCOCK, Henry. Entered Bombay army 18 June 1819; adjutant general 1 May 1848 to 15 Sep. 1856; col. 19 Bombay N.I. 1856–69; L.G. 30 March 1869. d. Friedenfels, Upper Maize hill, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex 30 Dec. 1872 aged 70.
HANCOCK, Henry (son of Samuel Hancock of London, merchant). b. Bread st. hill, London 6 Aug. 1809; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1843, prof. of human anat. 1865, president 1872, Hunterian orator 1873; house surgeon Westminster hospital, demonstrator of anatomy 1834–8; lecturer on anatomy and physiology Charing Cross hospital 1838, assist. surgeon 1839, surgeon to 1875, lecturer on surgery; surgeon Westminster ophthalmic hospital to 1875; the first to remove the os calsis and retain the foot; author of On the operation for strangulated hernia 1850; On the operative surgery of the foot and ankle-joint 1873. d. Standen house, Chute, Wilts. 1 Jany. 1880. Medical Times 10 Jany. 1880 p. 53; Lancet (1853) ii, 578, portrait.
HANCOCK, John (brother of Albany Hancock 1806–73). b. about 1808; saddler and ironmonger at Newcastle; formed finest collection of British birds in the Kingdom and presented it to Museum of Natural History Soc. Barras bridge, Newcastle 1881; author of A catalogue of the birds of Northumberland and Durham in Natural History Trans. 1874 and of other papers in same work and in Trans. of Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. d. 4 St. Mary’s terrace, Newcastle 11 Oct. 1890. Monthly chronicle of North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp. 566–9, 2 portraits; Graphic 25 Oct. 1890 p. 460, portrait.
HANCOCK, Sir Samuel (brother of Henry Hancock 1809–80). b. 3 June 1805; exon of the yeomen of the guard 1832–47; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 May 1841. d. 5 Paragon buildings, Cheltenham 7 Aug. 1886.
HANCOCK, Thomas (2 son of James Hancock, timber merchant). b. Marlborough, Wilts. 8 May 1786; invented the masticator by which india rubber was pressed into blocks or rolled into sheets 1820; india rubber manufacturer Goswell road, London 1821, works burnt down 11 April 1834, Manchester works burnt 1838; partner with Charles Macintosh maker of waterproof garments London and Manchester; patented vulcanised india rubber and vulcanite or ebonite 1843; took out 16 patents 1820–47. d. Woodberry vale, Stoke Newington 26 March 1865. Personal Narrative of India-rubber manufacture in England, By T. Hancock (1857), portrait.
HANCOCK, Walter (brother of the preceding). b. Marlborough 16 June 1799; engineer Stratford, Essex; invented steam engine in which the cylinder and piston were replaced by flexible steam bags, ran it on the road from Stratford to London Feb. 1831, built 10 similar machines up to 1840; associated with Thomas Hancock in manufacture of india rubber 1841; author of Narrative of twelve years experiments of steam carriages on common roads 1838. d. West Ham, Essex 14 May 1852.
HANCOCK, William Neilson (2 son of Wm. John Hancock of Lisburn, Antrim). b. Castle st. Lisburn 1820; ed. at Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, LL.B. 1846, LLD. 1849; barrister King’s inns 1844; Q.C. 1859; professor of political economy at Trin. coll.; professor of political economy and jurisprudence Queen’s coll. Belfast; founded Statistical and social inquiry Soc. of Ireland 1847; sec. to Univ. of Dublin commission, Irish railway commission and other commissions; clerk of the Crown and Hanaper office, Dublin. d. at residence of Sir Wm. Thomson, Glasgow 10 July 1888. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 17 July.
HAND, George Sumner. b. 1807; entered navy 5 Feb. 1821, captain 6 Sep. 1852, retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 20 May 1859; F.R.G.S.; served in Ava 1825, West Indies 1829–31, on coast of Africa 1844–9. d. I. 4 The Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Dec. 1883.
HANDLEY, John. b. Stoke, Notts. 1807; a banker at Newark and Sleaford as Handley, Peacock & Co.; M.P. for Newark 1857–65; sheriff of Notts. 1869. d. North gate, Newark 8 Dec. 1880.