Capt. W. E. Rolston

Abstract

THE sudden death, on August 9, at forty-five years of age, of Capt. W. E. Rolston will be greatly regretted by many old students of the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, where he received his scientific training. Capt. Rolston was the founder and managing editor of the Cologne Post—the. admirable daily paper published by the British Army on the Rhine-but he was well known in astronomical circles by his work with Sir Norman Lockyer, and at Cambridge. He entered the Royal College of Science as a Teacher in Training, and for about a year assisted in the demonstrations in the course of astronomical physics there, gaining also some experience in solar physics work. In 1899 Rolston took up a teaching post, but returned again to the Solar Physics Observatory at South Kensington in 1901, and remained on the staff of the observatory until he joined the Buffs in 1915. He was with Sir Norman Lockyer for twelve years before the transfer of the observatory to Cambridge in 1913, where he continued to be a member of the staff.