Francis Wollaston (scientist)

Francis Wollaston (6 June 1694, in London – 27 December 1774) was an English scientist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723. Wollaston was the third son of William Wollaston. He was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.^[1]

Family

He married Mary Fauquier, daughter of John Francis Fauquier and sister of Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier of Virginia Colony, in 1728 and they had the following children:

Mary Wollaston (1730–1813) married William Heberden
Francis Wollaston (1731–1815), priest and astronomer
Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764), physician
William Henry Wollaston, (1737–1759)
George Wollaston (1738–1826) (FRS)

References

↑ "Francis Wollaston (WLSN712F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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
civil servant and author
(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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