Bancroft may refer to:
People
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Bancroft (surname) Bancroft is a Toponymy, place name-derived English surname originating in the 13th century with three purported origins: the locale Bancroft in Ardeley, Hertfordshire; the locale of Bancroft Field in Soham, Cambridgeshire; or an Old English translit ...
Places
United States
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Bancroft, Idaho, a city
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Bancroft, Iowa, a city
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Bancroft, Kentucky, a home rule-class city
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Bancroft, Louisiana, an unincorporated area
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Bancroft, Maine, a township
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Bancroft, Michigan, a village
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Bancroft, Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighborhood
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Bancroft, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Bancroft, Nebraska, a village
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Bancroft, South Dakota, a town
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Bancroft, West Virginia, a town
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Bancroft, Wisconsin, a census-designated place
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Bancroft County, Iowa, a former county
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Bancroft Creek, a stream in Minnesota
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Bancroft Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota
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Bancroft Township, Cuming County, Nebraska
Elsewhere
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Bancroft, Queensland, Australia, a locality in the North Burnett Region
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Bancroft, Ontario
Bancroft () is a town located on the York River (Ontario), York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was first settled in the 1850s by descendants of the United Empire Loyalists and Irish immigrants. From the mid-1950s ...
, Canada, a town
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Bancroft, Milton Keynes, UK, a district
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Chililabombwe, Copperbelt Province, Zambia, a town
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Bancroft (crater)
Bancroft is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater located to the southwest of Archimedes (crater), Archimedes on the Mare Imbrium. A wide, shallow depression runs from the rim of Bancroft southeast to the Montes Archimedes. There are some clefts at ...
, a crater on the Moon
Arts and entertainment
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''Bancroft'' (TV series), a 2017 British TV series
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Bancroft Pons, a fictional character in the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth
* George Bancroft, protagonist of the 1980 film ''
Hangar 18''
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Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.
It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, d ...
, an American literary award from Columbia University
Schools
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Bancroft Middle School (Los Angeles, California)
This is a list of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The concept of zones is explained on the LAUSD website.
K–12 schools
Zoned schools
*Elizabeth Learning Center (only K–8 is zoned) (Cudahy, California, Cudahy, opened 1927) ...
, an American public middle school
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Bancroft Middle School (San Leandro, California), an American public middle school
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Bancroft School, an American private K-12 school in Worcester, Massachusetts
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Bancroft School of Massage Therapy, an American trade school in Worcester, Massachusetts
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Bancroft's School, a British independent school in Woodford Green, London
Ships
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USCS ''Bancroft'', a schooner in commission as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1846 to 1862
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USS ''Bancroft'', the name of more than one United States Navy ship
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USS ''George Bancroft'' (SSBN-643), a United States Navy fleet ballistic missile submarine in commission from 1966 to 1993
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''Bancroft'' (motor vessel), a 1925 ship preserved in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States
Other uses
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Bancroft Hall
Bancroft Hall, at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland, is said to be the largest contiguous set of academic dormitories in the U.S. Bancroft Hall, named after former United States Secretary of the Navy, U. ...
, a dormitory at the United States Naval Academy
* Bancroft Hall, a dormitory at
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is an Independent school, independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school and educates an es ...
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Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retain the name Bancroft Library in perpetuity. ...
, University of California at Berkeley, United States
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Bancroft Mills
Bancroft Mills is an abandoned mill complex along Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. It has been the site of some of the earliest and most famous mills near Wilmington and was the largest and longest running complex along ...
, a factory in Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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Bancroft Point, a real binary system where the components have equal saturation pressure and exhibit azeotropy
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Bancroft PLLC
Bancroft PLLC (formerly Bancroft Associates PLLC) was an American law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. The firm was founded in Washington, D.C. by former Assistant Attorney General Viet D. Dinh. Bancroft specialized in Supreme Court and ap ...
, an American law firm
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