Rollston, GEORGE

Rollston, GEORGE, was born at Maltby in Yorkshire, July 30, 1829. He had his schooling at Gainsborough and Sheffield, next entered Pembroke College, Oxford, took a classical first-class in 1850, and was elected Fellow of his college the next year. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was appointed in 1855 a physician to the British Civil Hospital at Smyrna. Returning to England in 1857, he was made physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford, and somewhat later Lee's reader in Anatomy. In 1860 he was appointed Linacre professor of Anatomy and Physiology, became F.R.S. in 1862, Fellow of Merton College in 1872, and died June 9, 1881. His Forms of Animal Life (1870) gave him a high reputation, confirmed by his valuable dissertation on craniology in Greenwell's British Barrows (1877). See Life prefixed to his Scientific Papers and Addresses (ed. Turner and Tylor, 2 vols. 1884).