{{short description|British far-right politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Alan Vivien Hancock''' (14 August 1914 – July 1989){{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} was one of the early leaders of the Racial Preservation Society (RPS). He was formerly a member of the British Union of Fascists (BUF)<ref>Richard Thurlow, ''Fascism in Britain: From Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts to the National Front'', I.B.Tauris, 1998, p. 253</ref> which was formed in 1932 by ex-Labour government minister Sir Oswald Mosley and was a union of several small, extreme nationalist parties. Hancock formed part of a three-man leadership team in the RPS who came from the BUF, alongside Ted Budden and Jimmy Doyle.<ref>Ray Hill & Andrew Bell, ''The Other Face of Terror'', London: Grafton, 1988, p. 29</ref>
He was the father of Anthony Hancock and set up a printing press called Wilson Press in Uckfield.
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