George Rolleston

George Rolleston (born July 30, 1829 in Maltby Hall, South Yorkshire near Rotherham , † June 16, 1881 in Oxford ) was an English doctor and physiologist .

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George Rolleston was the second son of a Yorkshire clergyman . Under the supervision of his father, he received his education first at the Grammar School in Gainsborough and the Collegiate School in Sheffield . In December 1846 he began studying classical music at Pembroke College , Oxford , where he received his Baccalaureus Artium (BA) degree in 1850 . He then studied medicine from October 1851 at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London . There he graduated as Medicinae Baccalaureus (MB) in 1854 . During the last phase of the Crimean War , Rolleston worked at the British Civil Hospital in Smyrna . On his return he became an assistant doctor at Children's Hospital in London. In 1857 Rolleston moved to Oxford as a Medicinæ Doctor (MD), where he was Lees's Reader for Anatomy at Christ Church College and from 1860 first Linacre Professor of Physiology at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History . In 1861 he married Grace Davy, a daughter of John Davy , with whom he had seven children. On June 5, 1862, Rolleston was inducted into the Royal Society . In 1872 he became a member of Merton College , Oxford. From December 10, 1874 to June 16, 1881 he was on the council of Oxford University. George Rolleston was buried in Oxford's Holywell Cemetery .

His major work Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy was published in 1870 and was a textbook for Oxford students. In it he briefly summarized the main characteristics of the known animal classes and gave in the main part a description of the anatomical samples available in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Works (selection)

Books

Magazine articles

On the Affinities of the Brain of the Orang Utang . In: Natural History Review . Volume 1, April 1861, pp. 201-217. Online .
On the Domestic Cats, Felis Domesticus and Mustela Foina, of Ancient and Modern Times . In: Journal of Anatomy and Physiology . Volume 2, No. 1, 1868, pp. 47-61. PMC 1318585 (free full text).
On the domestic pig of prehistoric times in Britain and on the mutual relations of this variety of pig and Sus scrofa ferus, Sus cristatus, Sus andamanensis, and Sus barbatus . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology . Series 2, Volume 1, London 1879, pp. 251-286.

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literature

George Rolleston, MD, FRS . In: Nature . Volume 24, pp. 192-193, June 30, 1881, doi : 10.1038 / 024192a0 . (Obituary)
Frederic Boase: Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index of the most Interesting Matter . Netherton & Worth, Truro: 1892–1921, 6 volumes.

Individual evidence

^ John A. Shepherd: The Crimean doctors: a history of the British medical services in the Crimean War . Volume 1, Liverpool University Press, 1991, ISBN 0853231672 , p. 644.

Web links

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Entry to Rolleston; George (1829-1881) in the Royal Society Archives , London

personal data
SURNAME	Rolleston, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English doctor and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH	Maltby Hall, South Yorkshire at Rotherham
DATE OF DEATH	June 16, 1881
Place of death	Oxford

[1] John A. Shepherd: The Crimean doctors: a history of the British medical services in the Crimean War . Volume 1, Liverpool University Press, 1991, ISBN 0853231672 , p. 644.