Sir Alfred Pearce Gould (2 January 1852 in

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– 19 April 1922) was

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of the Faculty of Medicine of the

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from 1912–1916 and was

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of the university from 1916–1917. He was also a

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and Member of Council of

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Education

He was educated at Amersham Hall School in Caversham, Oxfordshire, now Berkshire, and then University College, London. He was awarded a Gold Medal and Scholarship in Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetric Medicine at the MB examination and the Gold Medal in Forensic Medicine and two years later the Gold Medal at the MS.

Career

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he was in succession House Physician, House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Demonstrator of Anatomy. He became Assistant Surgeon at

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and from 1877 to 1887 lectured in the hospitals Medical School. He then became Assistant Surgeon at

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and Dean of the Medical School during 1886–1892. He was President of the

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for a two-year term beginning in 1902. On 7 December 1910 he gave the

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to the

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on cancer. Pearce's boo
''Elements of Surgical Diagnosis''
was first published in 1884 and went through ten editions. He was particularly interested in the cause and treatment of cancer. In World War I he was Major in the

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in charge of the surgical division of a Territorial General Hospital. He became

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in 1915. He took charge after the 1918

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until the hospital closed in 1920. He was sent to France in 1917 to report on the treatment of wounds. He was awarded KCVO in 1910 and CBE in 1919 for military service.

Personal life

He was a practising

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and total

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from alcohol. He married twice A. Pearce Gould's 2nd marriage was in 1885 to Lord Justice Lush's youngest daughter, Florence. and had three sons and five daughters. His second son, Eric Lush Pearce Gould became a surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. A third son, Alfred Leslie Pearce Gould served in the

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and was killed in the First World War on 19 May 1918, predeceasing his father, who died in Ashburton, Devon.

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Portrait of Alfred Pearce Gould
at the National Portrait Gallery (London). {{DEFAULTSORT:Gould, Alfred Pearce 1852 births 1922 deaths Alumni of University College London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 20th-century British medical doctors Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Vice-Chancellors of the University of London Medical doctors from Norwich People educated at Amersham Hall

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