Alexander Luard Wollaston

Alexander Luad Wollaston
Born(1804-06-14)14 June 1804
Battersea, London
Died10 June 1874(1874-06-10) (aged 69)
Hollington, East Sussex
Alma materGonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA)
Spouse
Susanna Charlotte Morris
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(m. 1837)​

Alexander Luard Wollaston FRS (14 June 1804 – 10 June 1874) was an amateur scientist.[1][2]

The fourth son of George Hyde Wollaston (1765–1841) and Mary Anne Luard (aunt of Sir William Luard and John Luard),[3][4] Wollaston was educated at Hackney and Harrow before matriculating on 15 March 1823 at St John's College, Cambridge and then migrating on 10 November 1821 to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated there B.A. 1826 and M.A. 1829. He qualified M.B. in 1829 but never practised medicine. He was elected F.R.S. in 1829.[1] He studied chemistry and natural philosophy in Paris.[5]

On 16 March 1837, at Ryde, he married Susanna Charlotte Morris (1807–1894) and had two sons and four daughters. The doctor and explorer Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston was his grandson.

  1. ^ a b "Wollaston, Alexander Luard (WLSN821AL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Boase, Frederic, ed. (1921). Modern English Biography. Vol. 6. p. 936.
  3. ^ Venn, John, ed. (1901). Biographical history of Gonville and Caius College, 1349–1897. p. 183.
  4. ^ Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 14th ed. (London 1925), pp. 1135−1137.
  5. ^ Science Museum Group, collection: Wollaston, George Hyde. Retrieved 4 December 2023.