Norman Merrett Hancox

Norman Merrett Hancox (1912–1990) was Professor of Histology and Medical Cell Biology at Liverpool University. He wrote the standard text on bone biology, Biology of Bone (Cambridge University Press, 1972, OCLC 340884).

In 1937 he was living at 26 Coram Street in Holborn, London.

In the Second World War he was a Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Doctor/Surgeon on board HMS Royal Oak when she was torpedoed on 14 October 1939 in Orkney by the German submarine U-47. Later in the war he worked at Porton Down.

He was born on 11 November 1912 in Cheshire.

He died on 15 January 1990.