William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768)

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

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. He was 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 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.

His daughter, Elizabeth, married William Chetwynd, MP for Stafford.

Notes

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

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages – Peerages beginning with "I"

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Francis Vernon Thomas Staunton	Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1768–1784 With: Thomas Staunton	Succeeded by William Middleton John Cator

Wollaston family tree

Revd. William Wollaston
(1659–1724)

Catherine Charlton
(1670–1720)

Dr. John Francis Fauquier
(1672–1726)

Elizabeth Chamberlayne
(1676–1748)

Francis Wollaston
(1694–1774)

Mary Fauquier
(1702–1773)

Francis Fauquier
(1703–1768)

Elizabeth Fauquier
(1706–1764)

William Wollaston MP
(1693–1764)

Col. William Wollaston M.P.
(1731–1797)

Frederick Wollaston
(1735–1801)

Priscilla Ottley
(1740–1819)

William Heberden
(1710–1801)

Mary Wollaston
(1730–1813)

Revd. Francis Wollaston
(1731–1815)

Althea Hyde
(1738–1798)

Charlton Wollaston
(1733–1764)

Revd. George Wollaston
(1738–1826)

Revd. Thomas Heberden
(1754–1843)

Althea Hyde Wollaston
(1760–1785)

Francis John Hyde Wollaston
(1762–1823)

George Hyde Wollaston
(1765–1841)

Mary Anne Luard
(1774–1817)

William Hyde Wollaston
(1766–1828)

Henry John Wollaston
(1770–1833)

Louisa Symons
(1784–1833)

Alexander Luard Wollaston
(1805–1874)

Susannah Charlotte Morris
(1807–1894)

Henrietta Wollaston
(1807–1873)

Field Marshal Sir George Pollock
(1786– 1872)

Frances Buchanan
(1786–1827)

Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston
(1776–1867)

Mary Ann Blanckenhagen
(1778–1805)

George Hyde Wollaston
(1844–1926)

Sarah Constance Richmond
(1847–1931)

Revd. Charles Buchanan Wollaston
(1816–1887)

Eleanor Reynolds
(1824–1891)

Thomas Vernon Wollaston
(1822–1878)

Julia Adye Catharine Buchanan
(1816–1910)

George Buchanan Wollaston
(1814–1899)

Henry Francis Wollaston
(1803–1876)

Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor
(1816–1879)

Dr. Alexander Richmond Wollaston
(1875–1930)

Stanley George Buchanan Wollaston
(1848–1923)

Caroline Elizabeth Harper
(1854–1898)

Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston
(1849–1926)

Arthur Naylor Wollaston
(1842–1922)

Caroline Marianne Woods
(1844–1902)

Rear Adml Herbert Arthur Buchanan Wollaston
(1878–1975)

Margaret Ermyntrude Buchanan Wollaston
(1885–1944)

Charles Earle Raven
(1885—1964)

Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston
(1874–1957)

John Earle Raven
(1914–1980)

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Source: Wollaston Family Tree

Family tree of the Wollaston family