George Rolleston

Physician and zoologist (1829-1881) · Doctors · Died at 51

George Rolleston was an English physician and zoologist. He was the first Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology to be appointed at the University of Oxford, a post he held from 1860 until his death in 1881. Rolleston, a friend and protégé of Thomas Henry Huxley, was an evolutionary biologist.

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1881Died16 June 18811873Harveian OrationAward1862Fellow of the Royal SocietyAward1859Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of LondonAward1829Born30 July 1829