Sandy Wollaston

Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston (22 May 1875, Clifton, Gloucestershire[1] – 3 June 1930, Cambridge[2]) was an English medical doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber and explorer.

The Wollaston family were landed gentry, of Shenton Hall, Leicestershire, appearing in deeds dating back to the reign of Edward III.

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.

Wollaston took part (as doctor, ornithologist and botanist) in the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest.

He was killed in 1930 in his rooms at King's by an undergraduate student, Douglas Newton Potts, 19, who fatally shot Wollaston and a police officer Francis Willis before shooting himself in a triple murder–suicide.