Alexander Luard Wollaston

Alexander Luard Wollaston FRS (14 June 1804, Battersea – 10 June 1874, Hollington, East Sussex) was an amateur scientist.^[1]^[2]

The fourth son of George Hyde Wollaston (1765–1841),^[3] Alexander Luard Wollaston was educated at Hackney and Harrow before matriculating on 15 March 1823 at St John's College, Cambridge and then migrating on 10 November 1821 to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated there B.A. 1826 and M.A. 1829. He qualified M.B. in 1829 but never practised medicine. He was elected F.R.S. in 1829.^[1] He studied chemistry and natural philosophy in Paris.^[4]

On 16 March 1837 at Ryde he married Susanna Charlotte Morris (b. 13 June 1807, d. 1894). They had two sons and four daughters.

References

1 2 "Wollaston, Alexander Luard (WLSN821AL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ Boase, Frederic, ed. (1921). Modern English Biography. vol. 6. p. 936.
↑ Venn, John, ed. (1901). Biographical history of Gonville and Caius College, 1349–1897. p. 183.
↑ World Wide Wollastons, Ivor & Brenda Jackson's Family History Library, myweb.tiscali.co.uk

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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