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Langley George Hancock aka "Lang" Hancock, (June 10, 1909 - 1992) was an Australian politician. He founded the Western Australia First Party, a right-wing, separatist party that advocated secession from Australia.
His family came to Western Australia with one of the first contingents of free settlers to arrive in the Swan River Colony, and he was born in Perth. They later acquired a farming estate in the North West, Mulga Downs, of which Hancock's father was owner.
He attended Hale School as a boarder.
In 1952, Lang Hancock discovered The Pilbara iron ore deposits. He initiated and perfected a technique which has led to the discovery in the Pilbara of more than 500 separate deposits of iron ore and which earned him the title of "The Flying Prospector". Peter Wright, whom he had met at Hale School, would later become one of his business partners.
In his old age he married a former maid, later to become Rose Porteous. Lang Hancock died unexpectedly in 1992.
Hancock's daughter Gina alleged that Porteus' behaviour contributed significantly to her father's death, but a coroner's inquest did not agree, and the daughter was reprimanded for paying witnesses to testify against the widow.
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