William Wollaston

William Wollaston and Catherine Charlton
His family was not wealthy. William was successively school teacher, Church of England priest, scholar of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, theologian, and a major Enlightenment era English philosopher. He led a cloistered life, but in terms of eighteenth-century philosophy and the concept of natural religion, he is ranked with British Enlightenment philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. In 1688 his cousin William Wollaston of Shenton left him a fortune and the family estates, including Finborough manor, Suffolk and the reversion of Shenton Hall, Leicestershire,
Children: eleven in all, four died before the father. The boys:  Charlton, died unmarried in 1729;  William, member of Parliament for Ipswich;  *1694 Francis;  John, died 1720.
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Francis Wollaston and Mary Fouquier
Francis married Mary Fauquier, daughter of John Francis Fauquier and sister of Lt. Gov. Francis Fauquier of Virginia Colony, in 1728.
Children:  1730 Mary; 1732 Francis; 1733 Charlton; 1737 William Henry; 1738 George.
He was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723.
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