Rolleston
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- Rolleston, New ZealandRolleston, New ZealandRolleston is a town in the Selwyn District of Canterbury, New Zealand.It is located next to State Highway 1, 22 km south-west of Christchurch on the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand. The town uses the slogan "The Town of the Future"...
- Rolleston, QueenslandRolleston, QueenslandRolleston is a small town on the Comet River in Central Queensland. It is located in the Central Highlands Regional Council local government area, west of Gladstone and northwest of Brisbane. Springsure, the nearest town lies south-east. Rolleston lies on the junction of the Carnarvon, Gregory...
in Australia
In England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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- Rolleston, Devon
- Rolleston, LeicestershireRolleston, LeicestershireRolleston is a parish and estate village near Billesdon in Leicestershire, England, and part of Harborough District.-External links:****...
- Rolleston, NottinghamshireRolleston, NottinghamshireRolleston is a small village in Nottinghamshire by the River Greet , a few miles from Southwell not far from the Trent and about southwest of Newark. It has a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity...
- Rolleston railway stationRolleston railway stationRolleston station is around half a mile from the small village of Rolleston, one of the Trent side villages close to Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is convenient for Southwell Racecourse, to which it is adjacent....
- Rolleston railway station
- Rolleston, Staffordshire
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- Sir John RollestonJohn RollestonSir John Fowke Lancelot Rolleston JP DL , was a British Conservative politician.He was educated at Repton School and King's College London. He was a keen Conservative and the leader of his party in Leicester, where, after being twice defeated at the poll, he was elected Member of Parliament in 1900...
- George RollestonGeorge RollestonGeorge Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS 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...
(biologist) - Humphry Rolleston (instigator of British System of heroin prescribing, 1926)
- Christopher RollestonChristopher RollestonChristopher Rolleston was a public servant.A prominent colonial civil servant in New South Wales has served as the register general . During his time as registrar general he was responsible for the launch of compulsory registration of births, deaths and marriages.He was born 27 July 1817 in...
- T. W. RollestonT. W. RollestonThomas William Hazen Rolleston was an Irish writer, literary figure and translator, known as a poet but publishing over a wide range of literary and political topics...
- William RollestonWilliam RollestonWilliam Rolleston was a New Zealand politician, public administrator, educationalist and Canterbury provincial superintendent.-Early life:...
, a New Zealand politician