# Alan Hancock

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{{short description|British far-right politician}}
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'''Alan Vivien Hancock''' (14 August 1914 – July 1989){{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} was one of the early leaders of the [Racial Preservation Society](/source/Racial_Preservation_Society) (RPS). He was formerly a member of the [British Union of Fascists](/source/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](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) government minister Sir [Oswald Mosley](/source/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](/source/Ted_Budden) and Jimmy Doyle.<ref>[Ray Hill](/source/Ray_Hill_(British_activist)) & Andrew Bell, ''The Other Face of Terror'', London: Grafton, 1988, p. 29</ref>

He was the father of [Anthony Hancock](/source/Anthony_Hancock_(publisher)) and set up a printing press called Wilson Press in [Uckfield](/source/Uckfield).

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