Alfred Gould (surgeon)
Sir Alfred Pearce Gould (2 January 1852 in Norwich – 19 April 1922) was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of London from 1912–1916 and was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1916–1917. He was also a Fellow and Member of Council of University College London. 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. At University College Hospital he was in succession House Physician, House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Demonstrator of Anatomy. He became Assistant Surgeon at Westminster Hospital and from 1877 to 1887 lectured in the hospitals Medical School. He then became Assistant Surgeon at Middlesex Hospital and Dean of the Medical School during 1886–1892. He was President of the Medical Society of London for a two-year term beginning in 1902. On 7 December 1910 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons of England on cancer. Pearce's book "Elements of Surgical Diagnosis