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:
References [ ]
Wollaston family tree
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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)
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)
Julia Adye Catharine Buchanan (1816–1910) George Buchanan Wollaston architect and botanist (1814–1899)Charles Buchanan Wollaston priest (1816–1887) Eleanor Reynolds (1824–1891) Thomas Vernon Wollaston entomologist and malacologist (1822–1878)
Henry Francis Wollaston (1803–1876) Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor (1816–1879)
George Hyde Wollaston (1844–1926) Sarah Constance Richmond (1847–1931) Stanley George Buchanan Wollaston (1848–1923) Caroline Elizabeth Harper (1854–1898) Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston footballer (1849–1926) civil servant and author (1842–1922)Caroline Marianne Woods (1844–1902)
Alexander Richmond Wollaston surgeon and explorer (1875–1930)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)
Family tree of the Wollaston family