Background

Bancroft, Philip was born on June 30, 1881 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Hubert Howe and Matilda Colley (Griffing) Bancroft.

Education

Preparatory education Phillips Exeter Academy, 1894-1895, and Browne and Nichols School, 1895-1898. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1903, Master of Arts, 1904. Bachelor of Laws, Hastings College of Law, University of California, 1905.

Career

Eldred, June 30, 1905. Children—Anne Bancroft, Lucy Eldred (Mistress John Alden Redfield), Philip Bancroft, Junior Admitted to California bar, 1905. and practiced in San Francisco, 1905-1917. Farming in Contra Costa Company, California, since 1919.

Active in local and statewide farmer activities.

President West American Finance Company. Director Technology Oil Tool Company Republican nominee for United States Senator, 1938.

Achievements

• Philip Bancroft has been listed as a noteworthy farmer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served in 1st R.O.T.C., San Francisco, 1917. Member American Legion, Farm Bureau, Associate Farmers (president), Grange. Clubs: Commonwealth, Harvard, Family (San Francisco).

Connections

Married Nina Otis.; children: Anne Bancroft, Lucy Eldred (Mistress John Alden Redfield), Philip Bancroft, Junior.

Father:

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Mother:

Matilda Colley (Griffing) Bancroft

Spouse:

Nina Otis.

child:

Anne Bancroft

child:

Lucy Eldred Bancroft (Mistress John Alden Redfield)

child:

Junior Bancroft

child:

Philip Bancroft