Pembroke College , Oxford
George Rolleston went to which school in Mar 1855?
George Rolleston 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 . Life . Rolleston was born at Maltby Hall , near Rotherham , Yorkshire , England . His parents were Rev . George Rolleston ( rector and squire of Maltby ) and Anne Nettleship ; his brother , William Rolleston , became a prominent politician in New Zealand . Rolleston was educated at Queen Elizabeths Grammar School , Gainsborough ; Sheffield Collegiate School ; Pembroke College , Oxford and St Bartholomews Hospital , London . He qualified with the degrees of BA ( 1850 , 1st Class ) , MA and MD . The same year he entered Pembroke College , Oxford , and took a First Class in Classics . After qualifying as a physician , Rolleston became a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1851 , holding posts at the British Civil Hospital , Smyrna ( during Crimean War ) , and Assistant Physician , Childrens Hospital , London ( 1857 ) . Gradually he became more interested in zoology , and spent the rest of his career as a zoologist , and on the human sciences . His research included comparative anatomy , physiology , zoology , archaeology and anthropology . In 1860 , he was elected to the newly founded Linacre Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology , which he held to the time of his death . He became FRCP in 1859 , was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 June 1862 , and Fellow of Merton College , Oxford , in 1872 . He was a member of the Council of the Oxford University , its representative in the General Medical Council , and also an active member of the Oxford Local Board . In 1861 , Rolleston married Grace , daughter of John Davy FRS and niece of Sir Humphry Davy ; they had seven children . Having suffered from kidney disease for over a year , he died of uremic convulsions in Oxford in 1881 and is buried with his wife , who died in 1914 , in Holywell Cemetery there . He had gone to Italy and France to seek treatment but returned to England a week prior to his death after his condition did not improve and finding out that Grace was seriously ill . In Who Do You Think You Are? , his great-grandson Frank Gardner , while researching on why his grandfather John Rolleston ( Georges son ) was so reticent about his childhood , discovered that Grace suffered from a mental breakdown after her husbands death and was committed to Warneford and Chiswick asylums and that a thirteen-year-old John had witnessed one of his mothers breakdowns . Rollestons anthropological archive is now in the Ashmolean Museum , along with the archaeological material resulting from his excavations . A bust of him sits in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History . One of his sons was Sir Humphry Rolleston , an eminent physician himself . His great grandson is the BBC journalist Frank Gardner . Career . As a zoologist , Rolleston was a protégé of Thomas Henry Huxley , and took part in both of the critical sessions at the 1860 British Association meeting in Oxford . Rolleston was one of the organisers for the meeting : he arranged for Huxley to stay at Christ Church during the meeting , and to have a crocodile skull in Huxleys room for study . Huxley was instrumental in Rollestons appointment to the Linacre chair that very year , backing him against Owens candidate . Rolleston wrote him a youll never regret this letter . As an expert on the brain , Rolleston was present on the Thursday , when Huxley denied Owens claim that human brain had parts that apes did not , and again on the Saturday for the debate on Darwin , where his opponent was Bishop Samuel Wilberforce . Rolleston was an Anglican , but a liberal in his religious beliefs , as was Huxleys other supporter in the brain debate , William Henry Flower . Huxley organised his FRS , as he did for Flower ; and the two men acted as liaison between the X-Club and the Royal Society . Rolleston remarked later that whenever he lectured on evolution , he was asked Was I an atheist or a Unitarian ? and some of Huxleys attacks on the Old Testament did cause him anguish . Rolleston was so identified with Huxley at this time that he appeared as one of Tom Huxleys low set in the ironical skit Report of a sad case recently tried before the Lord Mayor , Owen versus Huxley ( publ . George Pycraft 1863 ) as Charlie Darwin the pigeon-fancier and Rollstone cheer on their barrow-boy . This vivid broadsheet was certainly well informed : it mentions Owens disgraceful maltreatment of Gideon Mantell . He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1869 .