In 1959 he discovered comet C/1959 Q1 (Alcock), the first comet discovered in Britain since 1894, and only five days later discovered another, C/1959 Q2 (Alcock).
George Eric Deacon Alcock, angleški učitelj in ljubiteljski astronom, * 28. avgust 1912, Peterborough, grofija Cambridgeshire, Anglija, † 15. december 2000.