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| birth_date = 15 May 1851<br />
| birth_place = Bengal<br />
| death_date = 14 January 1929 (aged 71)<br />
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| occupation = Surgeon<br />
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'''Alexander John Willcocks''' (15 May 1851-14 January 1929) was a British Civil Surgeon in [[Bulandshahr]], [[North West Provinces]], [[British India|India]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Edinburgh Medical Journal |date=1884 |publisher=Oliver & Boyd |page=382 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_HIhzdWM54C&pg=PA382 |volume=29|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Office |first1=North Western Provinces and Oudh Accountant General's |title=History of Services of Gazetted Officers Attached to the N.W. Provinces and Oudh |date=1897 |publisher=Government Press |pages=569–570 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_9PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA569 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Alexander Willcocks was born on 15 May 1851.<ref name=IMSregister>{{cite book |title=UK, Registers of Employees of the East India Company and the India Office, 1615-1930 |page=186 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61103/images/46173_302022005561_1742-00291?pId=3391|via=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription}}</ref> His brothers included [[James Willcocks|Sir James Willcocks]] and [[William Willcocks|Sir William Willcocks]].<ref name=IMSregister/> He trained in medicine at [[Aberdeen University]] and [[Guy's Hospital]], gaining his MBCM in 1873, and MD from Aberdeen in 1883.<ref name=IMSregister/><br />
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==Career==<br />
According to [[Frederic Growse]] in his book titled ''[[Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District]]'', between April 1883 and March 1884, as Civil Surgeon based at Bulandshahr, Willcocks performed near three times as many operations there as had been done the previous year.<ref name=Growse>{{cite book |last1=Growse |first1=Frederic Salmon |title=Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District: Social, Historical and Architectural |date=1884 |publisher=Medical Hall Press |page=75 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNKVY1WkfCIC&pg=PA75 |language=en |chapter=1}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Willcocks died on 14 January 1929 at [[Dehradun]].<ref name=IMSregister/><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Willcocks |first1=AJ |title=A Year's Ophthalmic and General Surgery. |journal=The Indian Medical Gazette |date=August 1884 |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=226–228 |pmid=28999128 |pmc=5166782 }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Willcocks |first1=AJ |title=Nine Cases of Ovariotomy. |journal=The Indian Medical Gazette |date=August 1885 |volume=20 |issue=8 |pages=235–238 |pmid=29001354 |pmc=5184657 }}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Willcocks |first1=AJ |title=Prince of Wales' Hospital, Benares: Case of Ovariotomy. |journal=The Indian Medical Gazette |date=November 1887 |volume=22 |issue=11 |pages=328–329 |pmid=28999804 |pmc=5128544 }}<br />
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[[Category:1851 births]]<br />
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