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Authorised form of name	Wollaston; Francis (1731 - 1815)
Dates	1731 - 1815
Nationality	British
Place of birth	London, England
Date of birth	23 November 1731
Place of death	Chislehurst rectory, London
Date of death	31 October 1815
Research field	Astronomy
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	13/04/1769
Other Royal Society activity	Admitted 20 April 1769
Relationships	Son of Francis Wollaston (FRS 1723) and Mary, (1702-1773) eldest daughter of John Francis Fauquier; married Althea, (1739-1798) 11 May 1758 fifth daughter of John Hyde of Charterhouse Square, with whom he had seven sons; father of Francis John Hyde Wollaston (FRS 1786) and William Hyde Wollaston (FRS 1793); grandfather of Alexander Luard Wollaston (FRS 1829)
Sources	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Royal Society code	NA3227

Archives associated with this Fellow

Reference number	Title	Date
NLB/37/834	Copy Letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to G Woods Wollaston, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street	21 May 1908
L&P/8/58/2	Plate, 'Star atlas' by Francis Wollaston	1783
L&P/8/89	Letter, 'Variation of local heat as determined by a special thermometer' from James Six to Francis Wollaston	10 March 1784
L&P/6/102	Paper, 'Observations in 1774 of the going of his astronomical clock' by Francis Wollaston	January 1775
L&P/5/326	Paper, 'Astronomical observations made at Chislehurst' by Francis Wollaston	10 November 1772
L&P/6/35	Paper, 'Astronomical observations at Chislehurst' by Francis Wollaston	3 January 1774
L&P/8/58/3	Plate, Map of stars and an inverted moon' by Francis Wollaston	1783
L&P/10/41	Paper, 'Description of a meridian dial which gives mean solar time every day at noon' by Francis Wollaston	1793
L&P/8/144/2	Plate, 'Position of wires' by Francis Wollaston	1785
L&P/10/47/1	Paper, 'Description of a transit circle' by Francis Wollaston	1793
L&P/9/72	Letter, 'Experiments on local heat' from James Six to Francis Wollaston	1788
L&P/9/21	Paper, 'Observations of Miss Herschel's comet in August and September 1786' by Francis Wollaston	18 November 1786
L&P/9/153	Letter, 'A letter on the observation of a luminous arch' from Francis John Hyde Wollaston to Francis Wollaston	24 February 1784
EC/1769/02	Wollaston, Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/17/39	Letter from Isaac Newton to JF Fauquier	27 July 1720
L&P/8/144/1	Paper, 'Of a new system of wires in the focus of a telescope' by Francis Wollaston	15 March 1785
L&P/8/58/1	Paper, 'Of a method of describing the relative magnitudes of the fixed stars' by Francis Wollaston	1783
L&P/8/58	Paper, 'Of a method of describing the relative magnitudes of the fixed stars' by Francis Wollaston	1783
L&P/8/144	Paper, 'Of a new system of wires in the focus of a telescope' by Francis Wollaston	15 March 1785
L&P/10/47	Paper, 'Description of a transit circle' by Francis Wollaston	1793

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