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A. F. R. Wollaston (1875-1930) was an English medical doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber and explorer. Wollaston studied medicine, graduating and qualifying as a surgeon. However, he disliked the medical profession and preferred to spend his life on exploration and natural history. He travelled extensively, visiting Lapland, the Dolomites, Sudan and Japan, as well as participating in an expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains of Uganda in 1905. In 1912 Wollaston led an expedition to New Guinea. He also took part (as doctor, ornithologist and botanist) in the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest. Wollaston was murdered by Douglas Potts, a student, at his rooms in Cambridge. |
