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Rolleston Family
Rolleston may refer to: Places * Rolleston, Queensland, Australia * Rolleston, Leicestershire, England * Rolleston, Nottinghamshire, England ** Rolleston railway station * Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire, England ** Rolleston Hall * Rolleston, New Zealand ** Mount Rolleston ** Rolleston River People * Arthur Rolleston (1867–1918), New Zealand cricketer and lawyer * Boyd Rolleston, fictional character * Christopher Rolleston (1817–1888), New South Wales public servant * Frank Rolleston (1873–1946), New Zealand politician * George Rolleston (1829–1881), English physician and zoologist * Humphry Rolleston (1862–1944), English physician * Humphry Rolleston (businessman) (born 1946), New Zealand businessman * James Rolleston (born 1997), New Zealand actor * Jeremy Rolleston (born 1972), Australian sportsman * John Davy Rolleston, (1873–1946), English physician and folklorist * Sir John Rolleston (British politician) (1848–1919), British Conservative politician * John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolleston, Queensland
Rolleston is a rural town and locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Rolleston had a population of 309 people. Geography Rolleston is located on the Comet River, west of Gladstone, 263 kilometres (163 mi) north of Roma and northwest of Brisbane. Springsure, the nearest town, lies to the north-west. Rolleston is at the junction of the Carnarvon, Gregory and Dawson highways. There is a large coal mine west called the Rolleston coal mine. History Rolleston was built on Kanolu land. '' Wadja'' (also known as ''Wadjigu'', ''Wadia'', ''Wadjainngo'', ''Mandalgu'', and ''Wadjigun)'' is an Australian Aboriginal language in Central Queensland. The language region includes the local government areas of the Aboriginal Shire of Woorabinda and Central Highlands Region, including the Blackdown Tablelands. the Comet River, and the Expedition Range, and the towns of Woorabinda, Springsure and Rolleston. The town is named afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphry Rolleston
Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, (21 June 1862 – 23 September 1944) was a prominent English physician. Rolleston was the son of George Rolleston (Linacre Professor of Physiology at Oxford) and Grace Davy, daughter of John Davy and niece of Sir Humphry Davy, Bt (chemist). He was educated at Marlborough College, proceeded to St John's College, Cambridge and graduated in Natural Sciences in 1886. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London he qualified MB (Cambridge) in 1888 and MD in 1892. Public service and honours In 1891 he became Physician at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London and continued there until 1919. This period, however, was interrupted by his service during the Second Boer War, where he served with the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Pretoria. In World War I he was consulting surgeon and surgeon rear-admiral with the Royal Navy. He remained active on consultative board for the Navy for many years thereafter. Rolleston gave t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Rolleston
Augustine Sam Rolleston is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s. He played at representative level for New Zealand ( Heritage № 467), and Wellington, as a , i.e. number 3 or 4. Playing career International honours Rolleston represented New Zealand in 1969 against Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rolleston, Sam Living people New Zealand national rugby league team players New Zealand rugby league players Place of birth missing (living people) Rugby league centres Wellington rugby league team players Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger De Rolleston and Prebendary of Aylesbury.
Roger de Rolleston was a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Career Between 1174 and 1184 it is believed that Roger was a clerk to Archbishop of Canterbury Richard of Dover. In or after 1186 he was given by Archbishop of Canterbury Baldwin of Forde into the service of Bishop of Lincoln Hugh of Avalon during which time he worked with Robert de Bedford who is recorded as vice Bishop to Hugh of Avalon. He was Archdeacon of Leicester but in 1195 he became Dean of Lincoln The Dean of Lincoln is the head of the Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral in the city of Lincoln, England in the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln. Christine Wilson was installed as Dean on 22 October 2016. References Sources * * * {{Author ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Rolleston
Elizabeth Mary Rolleston (30 March 1845 – 4 June 1940), known as Mary Rolleston, was a New Zealand homemaker, political hostess and community leader. She was born as Elizabeth Mary Brittan in Castleton, Dorset, England in 1845. Her parents were Joseph Brittan, a surgeon and newspaper proprietor, and Elizabeth Mary Brittan (née Chandler). She had five siblings, two of whom died in infancy and a fortnight after the birth and then death of the last child in 1849, her mother herself died. The surviving siblings were Joseph (Joe), Arthur, and Frances (Frank). Mary Brittan married William Rolleston William Rolleston (19 September 1831 – 8 February 1903) was a New Zealand politician, public administrator, educationalist and Canterbury provincial superintendent. Early life Rolleston was born on 19 September 1831 at Maltby, Yorkshire as th ... on 24 May 1865 at Holy Trinity Avonside. She died in Christchurch on 4 June 1940. Notes References * 1845 births 1940 deaths E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Launcelot Rolleston
Launcelot Rolleston (1737 – 25 August 1802) was a member of the Markeaton hunt. Biography Rolleston was born in 1737, the son of John Rolleston, the minister at Aston-on-Trent and Dorothy his wife.Greaseley St Mary church monuments accessed 12 June 2008 Rolleston's family seat was Watnall Hall in Nottinghamshire. In 1762–3 Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
Francis Noel Clarke Mundy (15 August 1739 – 23 October 1815) was an English poet, landowner, magistrate and, in 1772, Sheriff of Derbyshire. His most noted poe ...
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Lancelot Rolleston
Lancelot Rolleston (20 July 1785 – 18 May 1862) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected unopposed as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Southern division of Nottinghamshire at the 1837 general election. He was re-elected unopposed in 1841 and 1847, and resigned from the House of Commons in 1849 by the procedural device of accepting the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. His daughter Charlotte Frances Anne Rolleston (died January 1853) was married on 11 April 1840 to the Whig politician George Heneage George Fieschi Heneage (22 November 1800 – 11 May 1864) was a British Whig and later Conservative Party politician. Background Heneage was the son of George Robert Heneage of Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire and Frances Anne, daughter of Lieutena .... References External links * 1785 births 1862 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 {{Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rolleston (New Zealand Politician)
John Christopher Rolleston (4 December 1877 – 22 May 1956) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Early life Rolleston was born in Christchurch on 4 December 1877,See talk page the son of Mary Rolleston. His father, the last Superintendent of the Canterbury Province, William Rolleston was in Wellington for the third session of the 6th Parliament and intended to be home in the second week of December, but it is likely that he will have missed the birth, as his seventh child (of nine in total) was born a week early. At the time of his birth, the family was living at Linwood House. His grandfather was Joseph Brittan (1805–1867). From 1880 to 1884, the Rolleston family lived in Wellington. William Rolleston held various ministerial posts in ministries led by John Hall (1879–1882), Frederick Whitaker (1882–1883) and Harry Atkinson (1883–1884) and their house in Molesworth Street, on the site that is these days occupied by Saint Paul's Cathedral, gave e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rolleston (British Politician)
Sir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston (26 March 1848 – 9 April 1919) was a British Conservative Party politician. Rolleston was the eldest son of Rev. William Lancelot Rolleston, vicar of Great Dalby and Scraptoft, and his wife, Mary Sophia Fowke, daughter of Sir Frederick Gustavus Fowke, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Repton School and King's College London. He was the leader of the Conservatives in Leicester. Following two defeats at the polls, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Leicester in 1900; the seat then having two MPs. He sat until 1906 when he was again defeated by the Liberal-Labour coalition. At the January 1910 general election, he became the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hertford and held the seat until 1916. He was knighted in 1897. Rolleston was also a prominent freemason. After several years of declining health, he died at his home in Glen Parva, Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davy Rolleston
John Davy Rolleston FSA FRCP (25 February 1873 – 13 March 1946) was an English physician and folklorist, who published extensively on infectious diseases and the history of medicine. Overshadowed by his brother, Sir Humphry Rolleston, he established himself as an epidemiologist, gave the Fitzpatrick Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in 1935-1936 and became involved in numerous other learned societies and medical bodies, including The Royal Society of Medicine and the Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety. He became the president of three sections of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, including the History of Medicine Section from 1924 to 1926. Early life and family John Rolleston was born in Oxford on 25 February 1873 to George Rolleston, Linacre professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford, and Grace Davy, the niece of Sir Humphry Davy. His brother was Sir Humphry Rolleston (1862–1944). He was educated at Marlborough College, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Rolleston
Jeremy Rolleston (born 13 December 1972) is an Australian sportsman who played rugby professionally before changing to bobsleigh. He competed for Australia from 1999 to 2006, then returned in 2008 to prepare to compete in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he finished 22nd in the two-man event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Rolleston also finished 31st in the two-man event at the FIBT World Championships 2005 in Calgary. He is the author of "A Life That Counts". References Jeremy Rollestonat the Australian Olympic Committee Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Aus ... * * Winstersports.au results on Rolleston's finish at the 2005 championships in Calgary* 1972 births Australian male bobsledders Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rolleston
James Rolleston (born 8 June 1997) is a New Zealand actor known for the films ''Boy'' and '' The Dark Horse''. The latter was released in October 2014 and had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 4 September. Film career Rolleston made his screen debut in the Taika Waititi film ''Boy'', playing the main role of the child who idolises his father. ''Boy'' became the most successful local film released in New Zealand to date. In 2014 he took roles in two further films: critically acclaimed drama '' The Dark Horse'', in which he co-starred opposite Cliff Curtis as a teenager who is set to be initiated into a gang, and action movie ''The Dead Lands'', in which he plays a young Maori warrior seeking vengeance for the massacre of his family. Rolleston also starred in ''Pork Pie'', the 2017 remake of the New Zealand classic ''Goodbye Pork Pie''. Rolleston has frequently appeared in Vodafone New Zealand television commercials. Filmography Personal life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
