Eric Geoffrey Hancox died as a result of an accident in August, 1937, at Mewchi mine, Burma, at the age of 25.
He began his technical training in 1929 at Liverpool University, where he took an honours B.Sc. degree in geology. He followed this by post-graduate research in petrology at the same university and received his M.Sc. degree. In 1938 he continued his research at the Royal School of Mines, and later studied economic geology at Arizona and Yale Universities. In 1937 he went to Burma as a mining geologist with the Mawchi mine.
Mr. Hancox was elected a Student of the Institution in 1936.
Vol. 48, Trans IMM 1938-39, p.833
