Professor Nathaniel Henry Alcock, MD, DSC

1871-1913

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Alcock's son, Dr NS Alcock, gave these papers to AH Sykes who was researching an article about Alcock for St Mary's Gazette, (see issue 95, pp 34-36, (1989)). Sykes gave them to the Physiological Society in July 1990. Alcock qualified in medicine in Dublin in 1896, and worked in Manchester, Dublin and with Hans Meyer at the University of Marburg before being appointed as Assistant Lecturer at the University Physiological Laboratory at South Kensington in December 1902. In December 1903 he was appointed as Lecturer in Charge of Physiology at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in December 1903. He became Vice-Dean in 1905, and in 1908 secured for St Mary's the first grant by the Board of Education to a medical school. He was appointed to the Chair of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal, in 1911 and died in June 1913.