Roy Bancroft was born on 21 February 1934, in Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of Percy William Bancroft and Ellen Sophia Bancroft. He died on 28 February 1997, at the age of 63.
English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock, smallholding’.
History: John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.
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