William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768)
William Wollaston MP
Colonel William Wollaston (1731, Finborough Hall, Great Finborough, Suffolk – 10 November 1797, Bath) was M.P. for Ipswich between 1768 and 1784. Before gaining his position in Parliament, he served as colonel of the Eastern Battalion in the Suffolk Militia. He was married to Blanche, daughter of Robert Hyde Page and sister of Sir Thomas-Hyde Page.[1]
He was also close with artist Thomas Gainsborough, with whom he shared a love of music. Gainsborough painted Wollaston's portrait in about 1758. In 1794 to pay off a gambling debt Wollaston sold the family estate at Finborough to Roger Pettiward (d.1833) whose family owned the neighbouring estate at Onehouse.
His father, William Wollaston was also MP for Ipswich.
His daughter, Elizabeth, married William Chetwynd, MP for Stafford.
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References
- John Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain (1863) p. 1689
- John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century (1817) p. 834
- Augustine Page, John Kirby, A supplement to The Suffolk traveller [of J. Kirby] (Ipswich, 1844) p. 536
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| | | | | | Francis Wollaston scientist (1694–1774) | | Mary Fauquier (1702–1773) | | Francis Fauquier governor (1703–1768) | | | Elizabeth Fauquier (1706–1764) | | William Wollaston MP (1693–1764) | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | William Wollaston army colonel and MP (1731–1797) | | Frederick Wollaston (1735–1801) | | Priscilla Ottley (1740–1819) | | | | |
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| William Heberden physician (1710–1801) | | Mary Wollaston (1730–1813) | | Francis Wollaston priest and astronomer (1731–1815) | | Althea Hyde (1738–1798) | | Charlton Wollaston physician (1733–1764) | | George Wollaston priest (1738–1826) | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Thomas Heberden priest (1754–1843) | | Althea Hyde Wollaston (1760–1785) | | Francis John Hyde Wollaston natural philosophy professor (1762–1823) | | George Hyde Wollaston (1765–1841) | | Mary Anne Luard (1774–1817) | | | | William Hyde Wollaston chemist and physicist (1766–1828) | | Henry John Wollaston (1770–1833) | | Louisa Symons (1784–1833) | | | | | | | | | | |
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Alexander Luard Wollaston (1805–1874) | | Susannah Charlotte Morris (1807–1894) | | Henrietta Wollaston (1807–1873) | | George Pollock army field-marshal and baronet (1786– 1872) | | Frances Buchanan (1786–1827) | | Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston (1776–1867) | | Mary Ann Blanckenhagen (1778–1805) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | George Hyde Wollaston (1844–1926) | | Sarah Constance Richmond (1847–1931) | | | | | | | | Charles Buchanan Wollaston priest (1816–1887) | | Eleanor Reynolds (1824–1891) | | | | | | | | Thomas Vernon Wollaston entomologist and malacologist (1822–1878) | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Julia Adye Catharine Buchanan (1816–1910) | | George Buchanan Wollaston architect and botanist (1814–1899) | | | | | | | | | | Henry Francis Wollaston (1803–1876) | | Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor (1816–1879) | | | | | | |
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| | | | Alexander Richmond Wollaston surgeon and explorer (1875–1930) | | | Stanley George Buchanan Wollaston (1848–1923) | | Caroline Elizabeth Harper (1854–1898) | | Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston footballer (1849–1926) | | | | | Arthur Naylor Wollaston civil servant and author (1842–1922) | | Caroline Marianne Woods (1844–1902) | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | Herbert Arthur Buchanan Wollaston navy rear-admiral (1878–1975) | | Margaret Ermyntrude Buchanan Wollaston (1885–1944) | | Charles Earle Raven theology professor (1885—1964) | | | | | | | Gerald Woods Wollaston herald (1874–1957) | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | John Earle Raven philosopher (1914–1980) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Family tree of the Wollaston family |