| Biography | Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB (21 June 1862 23 September 1944), was a British physician.
Rolleston was the son of George Rolleston and Grace Davy, daughter of John Davy and niece of Sir Humphry Davy, Bt. He was President of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1918 and 1920 and of the Royal College of Physicians between 1922 and 1925 and chaired the Rolleston Committee formed in 1924. From 1923to 1932 he was Physician-in-Ordinary to King George V. In 1925 he was appointed Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University and was also made President of the Medical Society of London in 1926. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1918, created a baronet, of Upper Brook Street in the parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of London, in June 1925 and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1929. 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.
Rolleston died in September 1944, aged 82, when the baronetcy became extinct. |