Francis Wollaston (Priest and Astronomer)

Francis Wollaston (23 November 1731 - 31 October 1815) was an English priest and astronomer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1769.

[edit] Family

He was the son of Francis Wollaston (1694-1774) and his wife Mary Fauquier. He married Althea Hyde in 1758 and they had several children:

Mary Hyde Wollaston(1760-1843) m.(in 1803) Rev W. Panchen
Althea Hyde Wollaston (1760-1785) married William Heberden (1754 -1843).
Francis John Hyde Wollaston (1762-1823)
Charlotte Hyde Wollaston (1763-1835)
Katherine Hyde Wollaston (1764-1844), conchologist.
George Hyde Wollaston (1765-1841)
Charles Hyde Wollaston (1772-1850)
Louisa Hyde Wollaston (1771-1772)
Frederick Hyde Wollaston (1770-1839? went to America in 1796)
Anna Hyde Wollaston (1769-1828) unmarried
Henrietta Hyde Wollaston(1767-1840)
William Hyde Wollaston (1766 -1828) physiologist, Chemist, and physicist.
Henry Hyde Wollaston (1774) died in infancy
Amelia Hyde Wollaston (1775-1860)
Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston (1776-1867)
Sophia Hyde Wollaston (1777-1810), unmarried
Louisa Decima Hyde Wollaston (1778-1854) married Rev. James Leonard Jackson of Dorsetshire
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