Rolleston, Humphrey Davy (1862–1944)

British physician. He was physician to St George's Hospital in London, England (1898–1919), and then emeritus physician. A distinguished consultant, he succeeded Clifford Allbutt as regius professor of physic at Cambridge University (1925–32) and was president of the Royal College of Physicians (1922–26). He was physician to King George V, (1923–32), and physician-extraordinary (1932–36). Rolleston produced a number of historical and bibliographical medical works. They include Internal Medicine (1932), The Cambridge Medical School (1932), The Two Heberdens (1933), and The Endocrine Organs (1936).

Rolleston was born in Oxford, England, and educated at Marlborough School and St John's College, Cambridge University. He subsequently studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, England. He was co-editor of Clifford Allbutt's System of Medicine (2nd edition). Other major editorial work included the British Encyclopaedia of Medical Practice (1936–43) and the medical periodical The Practitioner (1928–44). Rolleston also authored Diseases of the Liver, Gall-Bladder and Bile Ducts (1905), Medical Aspects of Old Age (1922), and a biography of Allbutt (1929). He was knighted in 1919 and made a baronet in 1924.