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Hancock, William

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1847, Lurgan, Ulster, Ireland. Died: 1914, Bristol, England.

career:

Since 1874 custom-house officer in China (stationed at Peking, Ning-Poi, Hainan and Formosa [= Taiwan]). He displayed a keen interest in the flora of China. He travelled in Java, Sumatra, etc. in periods of leave.

Polypodium hancockii Baker was named after him.

Collecting localities:

1892. Sumatra, visiting G. Kerintji (Sumatra West Coast), etc.¹ He visited Java in the same year. He collected mostly ferns.

collections:

Herb. Kew [K]:² plants from China, Formosa [= Taiwan], Japan, Jamaica, Guatemala, Mexico, Sumatra (90) and Java (91). Gray Herb. [GH]: Malaysian duplicates; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 57 dupl. Sumatra and Java; in Herb. Hance (= Brit. Mus. [BM]); Herb. Univ. Oxford [OXF] (with Herb. du Bois); Herb. Paris [P]: ferns from Sumatra (19) etc. It was stipulated that those specimens which were not required by Kew, should go to Bristol [BRIST].

literature:

(1) cf. Copeland in Philip. Journ. Sci. 37, 1928, p. 340.
(2) On the presentation of his herbarium to Kew cf. Kew Bull. 1922, p. 204.

biographical data:

Bretschneider, Hist. Bot. Discov. China, 1898, p. 747-748; Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger, 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Hancock, William
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1847, Lurgan, Ulster, Ireland. Died: 1914, Bristol, England.
	career: Since 1874 custom-house officer in China (stationed at Peking, Ning-Poi, Hainan and Formosa [= Taiwan]). He displayed a keen interest in the flora of China. He travelled in Java, Sumatra, etc. in periods of leave. Polypodium hancockii Baker was named after him.
	Collecting localities: 1892. Sumatra, visiting G. Kerintji (Sumatra West Coast), etc.¹ He visited Java in the same year. He collected mostly ferns.
	collections: Herb. Kew [K]:² plants from China, Formosa [= Taiwan], Japan, Jamaica, Guatemala, Mexico, Sumatra (90) and Java (91). Gray Herb. [GH]: Malaysian duplicates; U.S. Nat. Herb. Wash. [US]: 57 dupl. Sumatra and Java; in Herb. Hance (= Brit. Mus. [BM]); Herb. Univ. Oxford [OXF] (with Herb. du Bois); Herb. Paris [P]: ferns from Sumatra (19) etc. It was stipulated that those specimens which were not required by Kew, should go to Bristol [BRIST].
	literature: (1) cf. Copeland in Philip. Journ. Sci. 37, 1928, p. 340. (2) On the presentation of his herbarium to Kew cf. Kew Bull. 1922, p. 204.
	biographical data: Bretschneider, Hist. Bot. Discov. China, 1898, p. 747-748; Biogr. Index Britten & Boulger, 2nd ed. by Rendle, 1931; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.