William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768)

Colonel William Wollaston (1731, Finborough Hall, 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 enighbouring 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

ources

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