William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768)
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Great Finborough
Great Finborough is a rural village in Suffolk, England about south west of Stowmarket and near one of the sources of the River Gipping. It has a population of 755....
, Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
– 10 November 1797, Bath) was M.P.
Member of Parliament
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for Ipswich
Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)
Ipswich is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...
between 1768 and 1784. He was friendly with the artist Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...
, 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
Great Finborough
Great Finborough is a rural village in Suffolk, England about south west of Stowmarket and near one of the sources of the River Gipping. It has a population of 755....
to Roger Pettiward (d.1833) whose family owned the neighbouring estate at Onehouse
Onehouse
Onehouse is a small village in the English county of Suffolk, about 3 miles west from the centre of Stowmarket near to the Golf Club.Recorded in Domesday variously as "Aneus", "Anehus" "Anuhus" and "Anhus" , today it is mainly modern housing for commuters with a few scattered older buildings. was...
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His father, William Wollaston
William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733)
William Wollaston was M.P. for Ipswich between 1733 and 1734.He was the son of William Wollaston , the philosopher. His son, William Wollaston was also MP for Ipswich.-References:...
was also MP for Ipswich.