Background
He was born at Llandaff in Glamorgan and died in the First World War at Festubert, Louisiana Bassee, France.
He was born at Llandaff in Glamorgan and died in the First World War at Festubert, Louisiana Bassee, France.
Rugby School.
Educated at Rugby School, Ralph Hancock was a right-handed middle-order batsman and an occasional bowler. He then disappeared from first-class cricket for four seasons before reappearing, with greater success, in four games in the 1913 season. These games included the match against Sussex at Eastbourne, in which Hancock scored 28 and 34, the two highest scores of his first-class career.
He was not successful in two games in the 1914 season.
Hancock was serving as a Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment when he was killed less than three months into the First World War.