(fl 1970-2010), Family historian

Frank James is descended from John Hancock. He is the collector and historian of the family archives and between 1970 and 2010 amassed a significant quantity of material about the family. This culminated in him co-authoring a book with John Loadman, 'The Hancocks of Marlborough. Rubber, Art, and the Industrial Revolution: A Family of Inventive Genius' (2010, OUP).