William Edward Rolston

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William Edward Rolston tomb in Cologne's south cemetery

William Edward Rolston (born October 18, 1876 in Birmingham , † August 9, 1921 in Cologne ) was a British astronomer , soldier and founder of The Cologne Post , the first English-language daily newspaper in Germany .

Life path

Rolston was the son of a manufacturer of thermometers. In Birmingham he attended George Dixon Higher Grade School and then studied astronomy at the Royal College of Science in London and then at Cambridge University . In 1904 he became an elected member of the Royal Astronomical Society . His research results also flowed into Joseph Norman Lockyer's work Further Researches on the Temperature Classification of Stars . He worked at the Solar Physics Observatory in South Kensington . In 1915 he applied to the British Army . In 1918 he was sent to France and Flanders as part of the military intelligence system . In 1919 he came to occupied Cologne as a staff member of the military governor and was commissioned to found a newspaper. He died in 1921, leaving behind his wife, Amy Rolston, and children.

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Inscription founder "The Cologne Post"

In 1921 he passed away and is on the Cologne Southern Cemetery in Commonwealth - Ehrenfriedhof buried.

The epitaph reads: FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF THE "COLOGNE POST" "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH" . The grave number is VII. B. 13.

The Cologne Post is founded

Rolston was a soldier with the regiment the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) with rank of captain. In 1919 he founded the newspaper The Cologne Post on behalf of the Rhine Army . As editor-in-chief , he ran the newspaper in the early years. With the relocation of strong British troops to Upper Silesia under the leadership of the former commander of the British occupation in Cologne, William Heneker as a result of the third uprising in Upper Silesia , special editions of the Cologne Post for British soldiers appeared in the summer of 1921 from June 17 to August 6, 1921 in Opole . This strained his strength so much that he died in 1921. He is buried in the Cologne South Cemetery in the Commonwealth - Ehrenfriedhof . The epitaph reads: FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF THE "COLOGNE POST" "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH" .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c National Records Office, Kew and obituary in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , Vol. 82, p.253 [1]
  2. ^ Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, p. 254
  3. ↑ William Rolston colognepost.org
  4. ^ The Cologne Post 1921-1929 stampdomain.com
  5. ^ William Edward Rolston
personal data
SURNAME Rolston, William Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British astronomer, soldier and founder of the first English-language daily newspaper in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1921
Place of death Cologne