Background
Nora Lilian Scott was born in 1874, the daughter of Sir John Scott, the Judicial Advisor to the Khedive of Egypt, and Edgeworth Leonora Hill.
Nora Lilian Scott was born in 1874, the daughter of Sir John Scott, the Judicial Advisor to the Khedive of Egypt, and Edgeworth Leonora Hill.
lieutenant appears she had no formal higher education. During the Second World War, she taught botany to prisoners of war.
As a result of her research on fungal diseases, in particular red core disease in strawberries, Alcock was awarded an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1935. Her work developed disease-resistant strains and catalogued seed-borne diseases. In 1924 Alcock became the first person to hold the new post of Plant Pathologist in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.
She was a member of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs and the Edinburgh Soroptimists.
