| address = Oxford [1862]<br />Park Grange, Oxford [18791875]

| left = 1881.06.28 deaddeceased

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<br /><br />Member of the Athenaeum club from 1875<br /><br />George Rolleston (1829-1881) joined the ESL in 1860, the year in which he was appointed to the Linacre Chair of Anatomy and Physiology. 1860 was also the year in which the University Museum opened, a project in which he had played an important role. He was no stranger to Oxford. He had read classics at Pembroke, graduating in 1850. He then had a fellowship there and studied law and physic. His interest then turned to medicine; spending some years away in London and at a hospital in Smyrna during the Crimean War. He returned to Oxford in 1857 to become Lee’s Reader in Anatomy. He was active in the ESL and sat on its council in 1864-5. This activity continued with the AI and he published several articles in the JAI. He was a close friend of Pitt-Rivers with whom he made a research trip to Sweden in 1879. Once again there is no evidence that he attended or played a part in the proceedings of the OAS. Even so his part in the formation of anthropology, including the foundation of the PRM is difficult to overestimate. [Peter Riviere]