Francis Wollaston (priest and astronomer)
- Francis Wollaston (priest and astronomer)
Francis Wollaston (23 November 1731 - 31 October 1815) was an English priest and astronomer. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1769.
Wollaston wrote a rare privately printed autobiography "The Secret History of a Private Man". In it, he explains that his pursuit of astronomy was intended to separate him at a "distance from the misrepresentations of narrow minded biggots." He had a private observatory with a triplet telescope by Peter Dollond.
Family
He was the son of Francis Wollaston (1694-1774) and his wife Mary Fauquier. He married Althea Hyde in 1758 and they had several children:
* Mary Hyde Wollaston(1760-1843) m.(in 1803) Rev W. Panchen
* Althea Hyde Wollaston (1760-1785) married William Heberden (1754 -1843).
* Francis John Hyde Wollaston (1762-1823)
* Charlotte Hyde Wollaston (1763-1835)
* Katherine Hyde Wollaston (1764-1844), conchologist.
* George Hyde Wollaston (1765-1841)
* Charles Hyde Wollaston (1772-1850)
* Louisa Hyde Wollaston (1771-1772)
* Frederick Hyde Wollaston (1770-1839? went to America in 1796)
* Anna Hyde Wollaston (1769-1828) unmarried
* Henrietta Hyde Wollaston(1767-1840)
* William Hyde Wollaston (1766 -1828) physiologist, Chemist, and physicist.
* Henry Hyde Wollaston (1774) died in infancy
* Amelia Hyde Wollaston (1775-1860)
* Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston (1776-1867)
* Sophia Hyde Wollaston (1777-1810), unmarried
* Louisa Decima Hyde Wollaston (1778-1854) married Rev. James Leonard Jackson of Dorsetshire
* unknown Child
* unknown Child
Reference: The First Asteroid by Clifford J. Cunningham (2001)
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