John Rutherford (Rutherford) Alcock
1809–97
Diplomat. Trained as a surgeon at Westminster Hospital. Became deputy inspector-general of army hospitals, but had to retire from surgery. British consul in China, 1844; consul-general in Japan, 1858–62. Minister-plenipotentiary at Peking (Beijing), 1865. Retired, 1871. Knighted, 1862.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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