Humphry Rolleston
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This article is about the English physician. For the New Zealand businessman of the same name, see Humphry Rolleston (businessman).
Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB (21 June 1862 – 23 September 1944) was a prominent English physician.
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Born | (1862-06-21)21 June 1862 |
Died | 24 September 1944(1944-09-24) (aged 82) Haslemere, England |
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 |
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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).[1] 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.