Bancroft

[ban-krawft, -kroft, bang-]

noun

1. George, 1800–91, U.S. historian and statesman.

2. Hubert Howe, 1832–1918, U.S. publisher and historian.

Example Sentences

In 2017-18, England's Jonny Bairstow was accused of "headbutting" Australia batter Cameron Bancroft in a bar in Perth, the same venue where Ben Duckett, then of the England Lions, poured a drink over James Anderson.

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Instead, he told Nichols he’d rather tangle with Anne Bancroft in “The Graduate,” only to be rejected as too handsome for the role.

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California’s most famous historians — Hubert Howe Bancroft, Kevin Starr and Robert Glass Cleland, to name a few — wrote extensively about so-called squatterism, with Bancroft describing what happened to the Californios as “oppressive and ruinous.”

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Grimsby Town chief executive Polly Bancroft was at home with her five-year-old son when the Carabao Cup second-round draw was made.

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Bancroft received another reminder on 13 August as her current club and old one were the last two names drawn at this stage of the competition.

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