William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768)

For other people named William Wollaston, see William Wollaston (disambiguation).

Colonel William Wollaston (1731, Finborough Hall, Great Finborough, 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 neighbouring estate at Onehouse.

His father, William Wollaston was also MP for Ipswich.

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

Sources

http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/icommons.htm

Parliament of Great Britain
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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Name	Wollaston, William
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Short description	British politician
Date of birth	1730
Place of birth
Date of death	10 November 1797
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