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Hock, Plantagenet. Plantagenet Hock was created by George Bronson-Howard (Bradley Lane, Nugent Leguerre, Yorke Norroy) and appeared in five stories in The Popular Magazine in 1907, beginning with “The Lady of Luzon” (The Popular Magazine, Mar. 1907).

Plantagenet Hock is a reluctant hero and is determined to stay that way. He is a drama critic sent by the Clarion to the Philippines as a “Special Correspondent.” Unfortunately, Hock refuses to ignore people in trouble, especially women, and his efforts to help them always land him in trouble. He is forced to help one woman try to escape from the Philippines with $25,000 in stolen money. In China he tries to help an abused woman and ends up being chased by the woman’s husband, a scholar of the mandarin class, and the husband’s machete-swinging men. Hock is a small, thin, bespectacled man, much given to bemoaning his fate.

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