William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768)
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Colonel William Wollaston (1731, Finborough Hall, Suffolk – 10 November 1797, Bath) was M.P. for Ipswich between 1768 and 1784. He was friendly with the artist Thomas Gainsborough, with whom he shared a love of music, and Gainsborough painted Wollaston's portrait in about 1758. In 1794 to pay off a gambling debt he sold the family estate at Finborough to Roger Pettiward (d.1833) whose family owned the enighbouring estate at Onehouse.
His father, William Wollaston was also MP for Ipswich.
[edit] 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
[edit] Sources
http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/icommons.htm
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| Preceded by Francis Vernon with Thomas Staunton |
Member of Parliament for Ipswich with Thomas Staunton 1768–1784 |
Succeeded by William Middleton with John Cator |
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