Nathan Alcock
Nathan Alcock | |
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| Died | 8 December 1779 (aged 72) Runcorn |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Edinburgh University Leiden University |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Title | Doctor |
Nathan Alcock (September 1707 – 8 December 1779) was an English physician.
Early life and education
Nathan Alcock was born at
Medical career
He returned to England and went to
B.M. in 1744, and M.D. in 1749. Also in 1749 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1754 was made Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London.[4]
He built up a large practice in Oxford and became very wealthy.[2] However, possibly because of ill health,[3] or following the death of a woman he intended to marry,[4] he returned to Runcorn. Here he built up a practice as large as his practice had been in Oxford.[2] He died from a stroke in Runcorn in 1779 and was buried in the parish church there.[3]
Politically he was a
Thomas, vicar of Runcorn, edited and published his The Rise of Mahomet, Accounted for on Natural and Civil Principles in 1796.[4] Also after Nathan's death, in 1780, Thomas Alcock published his biography entitled Some Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Nathan Alcock.[2]
Notes
Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Nathan Alcock.
- ^ Starkey, H. F. (1990), Old Runcorn, Halton: Halton Borough Council, p. 52
- ^ OCLC 5389146
- ^ OCLC 67531963
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/292. Retrieved 28 August 2013.required))
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