| Name | Hancock, William |
| Date of birth | 1847 |
| Date of death | 1914 |
| Remarks | [collector note: Taiwan] |
| ASA Botanist ID | 113083 botanist |
| GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/28b3617a-e951-4fcb-8b15-a759bc876e15 |
| Variant name | William Hancock |
| Author name | W. Hancock |
| B & P Author Abbrev. | W. Hancock |
| Standard/Label Name | William Hancock |
| Full Name | Hancock, William |
| Geography Collector | China, Japan, Malaysia |
| Specialty Author | Spermatophytes |
| Specialty Collector | Phanerogams |
| Citation as Author | Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
| Citation as Collector | Index Herbariorum - Collectors E-H |
| Holdings | Search for specimens collected by William Hancock |
| Collections in | [no date] (2), 1877 (1), 1892 (1), 1893 (4), 1895 (1) |