George Buchanan Wollaston

George Buchanan Wollaston (26 April 1814, Clapton, Middlesex – 26 March 1899, Chislehurst, London Borough of Bromley) was an English architect, watercolourist, and amateur botanist. He is famous for his collection and cultivation of British ferns.

Biography Much of his family had lived in Chislehurst and his paternal grandfather Francis Wollaston was Anglican rector there from 1769 to 1815. He was apprenticed to the architect Augustus Pugin and worked as an architect for a number of years. After this inheritance he worked very little as an architect and devoted himself to botanical study involving collecting and growing plants, especially ferns Using the money gained by selling the Conduit Lodge property, he bought in Chislehurst the small property called Bishop's Well, where he lived from about 1853 until his death in 1899.

He contributed articles to The Phytologist.

In August 1843 he married his cousin Julia Adye Catharine Buchanan (1816–1910). Their son Stanley George Buchanan-Wollaston (1848–1923) was the father of Herbert Arthur Buchanan-Wollaston.

In May 1981 the Covent Garden Gallery at 20 Great Russell Street exhibited some of Wollaston's watercolour drawings of rural England in the 1880s.