Dr Helen Mabel Bower Alcock
Personal Details
Dr Helen Mabel Bower Alcock FFARCS MRCS LRCP DA
01/04/1904 to 28/10/1983
Place of birth: Camberwell, London
Nationality: British
CRN: 715329
Also known as: Nee Dalton (married 1926)
Education and qualifications
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General education |
Cheltenham Ladies College; King’s College Hospital Medical School |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MRCS LRCP, 1934 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FFARCS by Election |
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Year of Fellowship |
1948 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA(RCP&S), 1942 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Her earliest recorded post was as junior house anaesthetist at King’s College Hospital, but in 1936 she was working in venereal & women’s diseases clinics, returning to anaesthesia at Soho Hospital for Women in 1942 after a period as clinical assistant in the Nuffield Department, Oxford. She also worked in other London hospitals, but by 1950 was a consultant at Moorfields, a post she held until retirement in 1969.
Professional interests and activities
No obituary has been traced to provide information, but she did publish on anaesthesia for ophthalmology.
Other biographical information
Married F Bower Alcock, a barrister, but did not start her undergraduate medical course until a year later. She gave birth to a son, Hugh, in 1943.
Author and Sources
Author: Prof Tony Wildsmith
Sources and any other comments: Ancestry.co.uk | Medical Registers and Directories | King’s College London Archives