George Rolleston

Career Academic / Natural Historian / Medic / Anthropologist / Archaeologist

Biography Physician and physiologist. Lee's Reader in Anatomy, University of Oxford, from 1857, first Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology from 1860, he was a strong force in the building of the University Museum in 1860. [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 22/02/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24026

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Royal Society / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Royal Geographical Society

County Too many counties to list

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyEthnographyOther

Collected around 1881

Dates active 1829-1881

Donated around 1935

English collections Stone weapons and tools, hobnails and remains of hobnails. (unknown number), axe, iron spears, knife blades, antler picks, ox bone tools, animal bones and teeth, pottery sherds, Kimmeridge shale discs, casts of spear

Oxford Uni College Pembroke College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1846-1850

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1846-1850, 1857-

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24026

English collection size 383

Connections Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers / Edward Burnett Tylor / Henry Hippesley / J.W. / Mr Barter / Frank J. Rawlins? / William Wood / Heathcote Wyndham / [Oxford University Museum of Natural History] / Ethnological Society of London