Dictionary Of National Biography Vol 1 4 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...for the exertions of professional life. At Runcorn, however, his practice soon became as extensive as it had been at Oxford. He worked on for nearly twenty years, and died of apoplexy 8 Dec. 1779. He was six feet high, of dark complexion and athletic make. Many stories were current of his successful cures and ready answers. A letter of his shows him to have been a resolute whig in politics, and in the church a follower of Iloadly. His Leyden thesis was on pneumonia. He published no other work, but told his biographer that lie had begun to arrange some cases and to write on air, and on the effects of climate. Some Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Nathan Alcock, London, 1780. N. M. ALCOCK, SIMON (rf. 1459?), scholastic writer, was educated at Oxford, where he took the degrees of M.A. and D.D. Before 1422 he was presented to the living of West Tilbury in Essex, which he resigned in 1428 for that of Lamarsh in the same county. A prebend in Hereford Cathedral was apparently conferred on Alcock on 25 Aug. 1436: it seems probable that he subsequently became canon of Lincoln, and was buried in the cathedral there on lOAug. 1459. Alcock apparently maintained throughout his life his connection with Oxford, and lie is still numbered among the benefactors of Ihe libraries of Oriel and Magdalen Colleges. His works, which were never printed, include commentaries on Peter Lombard's 'Liber Sententiarum, ' entitled ' Exposit iones in SententiasLongobardi, 'and many sermons. He was also the author of a 'Tractatusde modo dividendi thema pro materia sermonis dilatanda, ' which is preserved among the 1 arleian MSS. (635, f. 1), and of a ' Libellus de arte diet ami nis, 'preserved among t he MSS. of St. John's College, ()xford (clxxxiv. 4), the colophon of which stat