Alfred Gould (surgeon)

[1] He was educated at Amersham Hall School in Caversham, Oxfordshire, now Berkshire, and then University College, London.

On 7 December 1910 he gave the Bradshaw Lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons of England on cancer.

[2] Pearce's book Elements of Surgical Diagnosis was first published in 1884 and went through ten editions.

His second son, Eric Lush Pearce Gould became a surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital.

A third son, Alfred Leslie Pearce Gould served in the Royal Navy and was killed in the First World War on 19 May 1918,[1] predeceasing his father, who died in Ashburton, Devon.