George Rolleston

Physician and zoologist

George Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS (30 July 1829 – 16 June 1881) 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.