Langley Frederick George "Lang" Hancock (10 June 1909–27 March 1992) was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the competing spheres of business and politics. Famous initially for discovering the world's largest iron ore deposit in 1952 and becoming one of the richest men in Australia, he is now best remembered for his marriage to the controversial, and much younger, former maid Rose Porteous. Hanc...
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Langley Frederick George "Lang" Hancock (10 June 1909–27 March 1992) was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the competing spheres of business and politics. Famous initially for discovering the world's largest iron ore deposit in 1952 and becoming one of the richest men in Australia, he is now best remembered for his marriage to the controversial, and much younger, former maid Rose Porteous. Hancock's daughter, Gina Rinehart, was bitterly opposed to Hancock's relationship with Porteous, and the conflicts between Rinehart and Porteous overshadowed his final years and continued until more than a decade after his death.
Lang Hancock was born in Perth, Western Australia, to one of that state's oldest land-owning families. He spent his early childhood on his family's station at Ashburton Downs, and moved to Mulga Downs in the north-west after his father, George Hancock, bought a farming estate there. Lang attended the elite Hale School in...
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