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. 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.

Notes

↑ Bernard Burke, ‘Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain.' 4th ed. London : Harrison, Pall Mall, 1863. 1689

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

External links

Bookplate of William Wollaston Rare Books of the Shimeon Brisman Collection in Jewish Studies, Washington University

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

William Wollaston
priest, master and scholar
(1659–1724)

Catherine Charlton
(1670–1720)

John Francis Fauquier
bank director
(1672–1726)

Elizabeth Chamberlayne
(1676–1748)

Francis Wollaston
scientist
(1694–1774)

Mary Fauquier
(1702–1773)

Francis Fauquier
governor
(1703–1768)

Elizabeth Fauquier
(1706–1764)

William Wollaston
MP
(1693–1764)

William Wollaston
army colonel and MP
(1731–1797)

Frederick Wollaston
(1735–1801)

Priscilla Ottley
(1740–1819)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Julia Adye Catharine Buchanan
(1816–1910)

George Buchanan Wollaston
architect and botanist
(1814–1899)

Henry Francis Wollaston
(1803–1876)

Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor
(1816–1879)

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
(1842–1922)

Caroline Marianne Woods
(1844–1902)

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)

John Earle Raven
philosopher
(1914–1980)

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Source: Wollaston Family Tree

Family tree of the Wollaston family

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