Eric Geoffrey West Hancox

Eric Geoffrey West Hancox (known as 'Geoff') was born in July/August 1911 in Rock Ferry to Richard James Hancox and Marian Gilmour Croskery and christened on 10 September. He had one sister, Joan Nyria Hancox.

Geoffrey became a geologist, doing his undergraduate studies at the University of Liverpool and the Imperial College of Science London University, before moving to Canada and the US in the 1930s to gain his PhD.

He arrived in New York on Scythia on 11 September 1934; he was listed on the ships manifest as a student. The following year he went into the US from Canada, to Babb, Montana, and is listed as a student at both the University of California and the University of Arizona in Tuscon where he was a Commonwealth Fund scholar (now the Harkness Fellowship; at the time this was akin to a Rhodes Scholarship, and was awarded to foreign students studying in the US).

The following is an article from the front page of the Casa Grande Dispatch newspaper of Tucson, Arizona on 25 May 1934.

In 1935 Geoffrey was living at 910 East Helen Street in Tucson. He then obtained work as a mining geologist in the Mawchi tungsten mines, in Burma, but was killed in a mining accident on 10 August 1937. The Probate announcement read as follows: