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Alcock, Alfred William, 1859-1933
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1859-1933
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ALCOCK, ALFRED WILLIAM, son of John Alcock, Blackheath, Kent, and Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Christopher Puddicombe; b. 23 Jun 1859; adm. 27 May 1875 (H), having previously been at Mill Hill and Blackheath Schools; left May 1876; Aberdeen Univ.; MB and CM 1885; LLD 1901; Assistant Professor Zoology, Aberdeen 1883-5; entered Indian Medical Service 1 Oct 1885; Surgeon Mar 1886; Surgeon-Maj. Oct 1897; Lieut. -Col. Oct 1905; retd. Dec 1907; served with Punjab Frontier Force May 1886 - Oct 1888; Surgeon-Naturalist to Marine Survey of India on board R. I. M. S. Investigator 1888-92, and to Pamir Boundary Commission 1895; Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal Sep 1892; Superintendent, Indian Museum, and Professor Zoology, Medical Coll. of Bengal May 1903 - Dec 1907; on return to Britain joined London Sch. of Tropical Medicine; Professor of Medical Zoology, Univ. London 1919-24; FRS 6 Jun 1901; CIE 1 Jan 1903; Barclay Medal, Asiatic Society of Bengal 1907; author, A Naturalist in Indian Seas, 1902, and Entomology for Medical Officers, 1911; m. 29 Jul 1897 Margaret Forbes, third dau. of Joseph Rothery Cornwall, Aberdeen; d. 24 Mar 1933.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.