Sir Humphry Rolleston, 1st Baronet
| Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bt | |
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Humphry Davy Rolleston in 1916
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| Born | 21 June 1862 |
| Died | 24 September 1944 (aged 82) Haslemere |
| Education | Marlborough College, St John’s College, Cambridge, Barts |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Years active | 1888-1932 |
| Known for | President, Royal College of Physicians (1922-26), Physician-in-Ordinary to King George VI (1923-32) |
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| Institutions | St. George’s Hospital, London |
Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB (21 June 1862 – 23 September 1944) was a prominent English physician.
Rolleston was the son of George Rolleston (Linacre Professor of Physiology at Oxford) and Grace Davy, daughter of John Davy and niece of Sir Humphry Davy, Bt (chemist). He was a direct descendant of Sir Michael Stanhope, the Groom of the Stool of King Henry VIII, and 22nd in direct line from King Edward I (and thus 29th from William the Conqueror). He was educated at Marlborough College, proceeded to St John's College, Cambridge and graduated in Natural Sciences in 1886. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London he qualified MB (Cambridge) in 1888 and MD in 1892.
In 1891 he became Physician at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London and continued there until 1919. This period, however, was interrupted by his service during the Second Boer War, where he served with the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Pretoria. In World War I he was consulting surgeon and surgeon rear-admiral with the Royal Navy. He remained active on consultative board for the Navy for many years thereafter.
Rolleston gave the 1895 Goulstonian Lectures on the subject of On the suprarenal bodies, the 1919 Lumleian Lectures on cerebro-spinal fever and the 1928 Harveian Oration on Cardio-Vascular Diseases Since Harvey's Discovery.
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