| Authorised form of name | Rolleston; George (1829 - 1881) |
| Dates | 1829 - 1881 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Maltby Hall, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, England |
| Date of birth | 30 July 1829 |
| Place of death | Oxford, Oxfordshire |
| Date of death | 16 June 1881 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Holywell cemetery, Oxford, Oxfordshire |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Comparative anatomy |
| Zoology |
| Archaeology |
| Anthropology |
| Activity | Education:
Pembroke College, Oxford; St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. BA (1850, 1st Class), MD; MA
Career:
Fellow of Pembroke College (1851); Staff, British Civil Hospital, Smyrna (during Crimean War); Assistant Physician, Children's Hospital, London; Lee's Reader in Anatomy, Christ Church College, Oxford (1857); Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Oxford (1860); Fellow, Merton College, Oxford (1872); died of uraemic convulsions
Memberships:
FRCP; FLS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/06/1862 |
| Relationships | Married (1861) Grace, daughter of John Davy (FRS 1814) and niece of Sir Humphry Davy (FRS 1803); seven children |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1881-1882 vol 33 pp xxiv-xxvii signed by W H F |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/27826805 |
| Royal Society code | NA3376 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MS/743/1/181 | Letter from George Rolleston to 'Dear Lawson' | No date |
| EC/1862/09 | Rolleston, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/4/218 | Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C Robertson | 24 June 1862 |
| RR/7/353 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'The structure of the mucous membrane of the uterus and its periodical changes' by John Williams | 1874 |
| RR/7/331 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the structure and development of Peripatus capensis' by Henry Nottidge Moseley | 10 June 1874 |
| RR/5/140 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the brain of a bushwoman; and on the brains of two 'idiots' of European descent' by John Marshall | 25 September 1863 |
| RR/6/85 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'An inquiry into the variations of the human skull, particularly the antero-posterior direction' by John Cleland | 28 September 1869 |
| RR/7/304 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'The localization of function in the brain' by David Ferrier | 17 November 1874 |
| RR/7/103 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'Description of Ceratodus, a genus of Ganoid fishes, recently discovered in rivers of Queensland, Australia' by Albert Günther | 7 June 1871 |
| RR/7/303 | Letter from George Rolleston, on a paper 'The localization of function in the brain' by David Ferrier to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 17 November 1874 |
| RR/7/457 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the structure of a species of millepora occurring at Tahiti, Society Islands' by Henry Nottidge Moseley | 17 August 1876 |
| RR/7/445 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the comparative anatomy of the auditory ossicles of the mammalia' by Alban G H Doran | 18 October 1876 |
| RR/51/21 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'Refractive dispersion of organic compounds. Part IV.—Cyclohexene and 1 : 3-cyclohexadiene' by C B Allsopp | 4 May 1934 |
| RR/65/53 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'The spectrum of mono-deuteromethane in the photographic infra-red. I. Preparation of the gas, and measurements of a simple band at 9021 cm.-1' by W H J Childs and H A Jahn | 29 October 1938 |
| RR/7/255 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the anatomy and histology of the land-planarians of Ceylon, with some account of their habits, and a description of two new species, and with notes on the anatomy of some European aquatic species' by Henry Nottidge Moseley and M A Oxon | 26 August 1873 |
| RR/7/11 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the structure of the cerebral hemispheres' by William Henry Broadbent | 10 January 1870 |
| PT/64/2 | Paper, 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C [Charles] Robertson | [1861] |
| RR/4/217 | Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C Robertson | 22 June 1859 |
| MC/9/467 | Letter from George Rolleston, Oxford, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 1 January 1873 |
| MC/9/531 | Letter from George Rolleston, Oxford, to the Librarian of the Royal Society | 14 April 1873 |
| MC/10/15 | Letter from George Rolleston, Anatomical Department, Museum, Oxford, to the Royal Society | 8 September 1873 |
| MC/9/489 | Letter from George Rolleston, Anatomical Department, Museum, Oxford, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 6 February 1873 |
| MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
| MC/10/74 | Letter from George Rolleston, Oxford, to the Royal Society | 18 February 1874 |
| MC/10/100 | Letter from George Rolleston, Oxford, to the Royal Society | 26 April 1874 |
| MC/10/68 | Letter from George Rolleston, Anatomical Department, Museum, Oxford, to the Royal Society | 3 February 1874 |
| MC/10/117 | Letter from George Rolleston, Oxford, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 6 June 1874 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| RR/5/63 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the functions of the cerebellum' by William Howship Dickinson | [1864] |
| MC/8 | Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1867-1869 |
| RR/8/28 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on two papers 'Lymphatics and their origin in muscular tissues' and 'On the minute structure and relationships of the lymphatics of the mammalian skin, and on the ultimate distribution of nerves to the epidermis and subepidermic lymphatics' by George Hoggan and Frances Elizabeth Hoggan | 4 July 1877 |
| RR/8/109 | Final referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the minute structure and relationships of the lymphatics of the mammalian skin, and on the ultimate distribution of nerves to the epidermis and subepidermic lymphatics' by George Hoggan and Frances Elizabeth Hoggan | 19 March 1878 |
| RR/4/212 | Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C Robertson | 9 July 1859 |
| RR/4/216 | Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C Robertson | 1862 |
| RR/6/97 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'Ovibos moschatus (Blainville)' by William Boyd Dawkins | 17 August 1869 |
| RR/7/299 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'The localization of function in the brain' by David Ferrier | 12 May 1874 |
| RR/8/108 | Referee's report by George Rolleston, on a paper 'On the minute structure and relationships of the lymphatics of the mammalian skin, and on the ultimate distribution of nerves to the epidermis and subepidermic lymphatics' by George Hoggan and Frances Elizabeth Hoggan | nd [1878] |