From the School Magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171
Professor A E Jolliffe, after whom Jolliffe House was named, was a distinguished mathematician, having been an Open Scholar at Balliol.
He was an Honorary Fellow of both Jesus and Corpus Christi, and in 1920 he became Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Holloway College, University of London.
He was President of the Old Oxford Citizens’ Society from 1903 to 1913.
Professor Joliffe is what is known as a House Parton, that is: one of the four school houses was named in his honour