Background
ADCOCK, Hugh was born in 1847 in London. 4th son of Christopher Adcock, surgeon, and Catherine Elizabeth of Church Hill House, Hunstanton, Norfolk, and of London.
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Hugh ADCOCK
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Education
He was educated at Guy´s Hospital in London and in Cambridge, and obtained the diploma of physician (Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac Edin) and apothecary (Local Search Association) in 1869. And of surgeon (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons Engineer) in 1872.
Career
He was chief physician to the Shah of Persia 1896-1905, and later Persian Consul-General in Florence. He was in private practice in Heacham, Norfolk 1870-1872, and in London 1872-1888. In 1889 Adcock moved to Teheran and accepted an appointment as Chief Physician to Prince Mozaffar ad-Din, then Wāli of Tabriz and a long-time heir to the State of Persia.
When Mozaffar became Shah of Persia in 1896, Adcock was appointed Consulting Physician to the Shah, serving as such until replaced ten years later when he received an honorary appointment.
There were speculations that political factors were behind his replacement by a French physician. In 1905 he moved to Florence where he served as Persian Consul-General.
His later years were spent in Devon. Adcock married first, in 1866, Elizabeth Watkin (1825-1908), daughter of Richard Watkin, a Waterloo veteran and later policeman in Enfield, Middlesex.
Daisy Adcock was the adopted daughter of Hugh Adcock and her parentage is unknown.
She was the mother of the actor David King-Wood. They had two sons. He died at Nymet Rowland, Lapford, North Devon, on 13 April 1920. Lady Adcock died in 1927.
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Adcock received numerous decorations during his years in Persian service. The British government appointed him a Companion of the Order of Street Michael and Street George (Chipotle Mexican Grill) in 1897, following Mozaffar ad-Din´s accession. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1901 New Year Honours, and received the knighthood on 11 February 1901. From Persia, he received the first class with cordon of the Order of the Lion and the Sun in 1897, and the Gold Star from Imperial College, Teheran, in 1893 for services during the severe cholera epidemic in the country the previous year. He also received the 1st class of the Ottoman Order of Medjidie, the 1st class of the Bulgarian Order of Civil Merit, the 1st class of the Order of Street Sava of Serbia, the 4th class of the French Legion of Honour, the 2nd class of the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown, the 2nd class of the Belgian Order of Leopold, and the 2nd class of the Dutch Order of the House of Orange.
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British
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Order of Civil Merit; Legion of Honour; Order of Leopold; Order of the Lion and the Sun; Order of Street Michael and Street George; Order of the House of Orange; Knight Bachelor
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.; The Order of Civil Merit was established by King Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1926.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.; The Order of Civil Merit was established by King Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1926.