Bancroft

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Bancroft may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 Animals 3 Place names 4 Schools 5 Other

[edit] People

• Ann Bancroft, an American explorer
• Anne Bancroft, an American actress
• Dave Bancroft, an American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Edward Bancroft, a double agent in the American Revolutionary War
• George Bancroft, an American historian and politician
• George Bancroft (actor), an American actor
• H. Hugh Bancroft, British organist and composer
• Hubert Howe Bancroft, American historian and ethnologist
• Richard Bancroft, an ex-Archbishop of Canterbury
• Wilder Dwight Bancroft, an American physical chemist
• Bancroft family, previous owners of Dow Jones & Company

[edit] Animals

• Bancroft (horse), a thoroughbred race horse which ran in the 1880 Kentucky Derby

[edit] Place names

United Kingdom:

• Bancroft, Milton Keynes

Canada:

• Bancroft, Ontario

United States:

• Bancroft, Idaho
• Bancroft, Iowa
• Bancroft, Kentucky
• Bancroft, Maine
• Bancroft, Michigan
• Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Bancroft, Nebraska
• Bancroft, South Dakota
• Bancroft, West Virginia

[edit] Schools

• Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles)
• Bancroft Middle School (Long Beach, California)
• Bancroft School, a K-12 private school in Worcester, Massachusetts
• Bancroft School of Massage Therapy
• Bancroft's School, an independent school in Woodford Green, London.
• Bancroft Elementary School, Walnut Creek CA

[edit] Other

• Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, named in Hubert Howe Bancroft's honor and started with his collection
• Bancroft (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Bancroft Mills, a factory in Wilmington, Delaware
• Bancroft Prize, American literary award from Columbia University