Osborne William Tancock (25 June 1839 – 26 March 1930) was an English clergyman, headmaster, and author.
Born at Truro in Cornwall, Tancock was the son of a Church of England clergyman, the Rev.
[2] Educated at Truro Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, he took a second in Classical Moderations and later a second in Literae Humaniores, graduating BA in 1862 and MA in 1864.
[5] Ten years later he left Norwich to become Rector of Little Waltham, Essex, and did not retire from that benefice until 1925, when he was in his mid eighties.
[8] In Who's Who 1930 he gave his recreations as "Cricket in other days, lawn tennis, chess, natural history, zoology".