About George Wollaston
Lived 1738 – 1826 (aged 87–88). George Wollaston was a writer.
Extract from Observations on the Transit of Venus, a manuscript notebook from the collections of George III, showing Wollaston's presence at the 1769 Transit of Venus observations at the King's Observatory in Richmond-upon-Thames. George Wollaston (1738–1826) was an English Anglican priest. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
He was the son of Francis Wollaston (1694-1774). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated second wrangler in 1758. He married in 1765 Elizabeth Palmer of Thurnscoe Hall and they had a single daughter Elizabeth Palmer Wollaston who died in infancy (17 April 1766).
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fellow of the Royal Society
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George Wollaston was born in 1738.
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George Wollaston died in 1826.
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George Wollaston was a writer.
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