Otho Lewis Hancock OBE (19 December 1893 – 14 February 1942)[3] was a British soldier and colonial diplomat.
[4] He and his family were physically present in the original Government House (then known as Cameron Lodge) in Road Town, Tortola when it was physically destroyed by the "Gale of 1924", a catastrophic hurricane.
[5] Much of what we know about that hurricane's impact on the Territory come from contemporaneous written records and photographs by his wife, Agnes.
[8] Captain Hancock and his wife were both killed at sea on 14 February 1942 off the coast of Singapore, together with their son (also named Otho, an officer in the RAF[9]).
[8] Some reports suggest that Hancock left the ship by the gangway but then later returned to try and fight the blaze, and was never seen again.