He attended King Edward VI's school, Bath[3] and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with his B.A.
[3] He moved to Australia where he took up a position as a history and economics lecturer at the newly established University of Queensland in 1912.
His work to establish commercial studies courses led to the creation of a Faculty of Commerce at the university which would offer degrees from 1925 onwards.
[1][6][7] Alcock created thousands of glass lantern slides, some from photographs he took himself, others which he copied.
The University of Queensland Fryer Library holds over 2000 of these slides (known as the Alcock Collection).