WOLLASTON, Richard (c.1669-1728), of Wormley, Herts. and Whitchurch, Hants.

Family and Education

b. c. 1699, 1st s. of John Wollaston of Wormley by Hannah Horton. m. 22 Sept. 1685, Faith, da. of George Browne, 23ch. inc. 3s. 2da. (14 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1692. Burke, Commoners, iii. 416; Cal. Treas. Pprs. 1720–8, p. 376; IGI, London.

Offices Held

Receiver-gen. taxes, Herts. 1697–1701; steward and bailiff, Salford Hundred, duchy of Lancaster 1699–1702; surveyor of lands and woods, South, duchy of Lancaster 1708–12. Cal. Treas. Bks. xi. 380, 393; xii. 93, 144; xvi. 331; xxxi. 372; Somerville, Duchy of Lancaster Official Lists, 78, 140, 142; Boyer, Pol. State, i–ii. 385; iv. 62.

Purse bearer to ld. keeper 1705–10; commr. collection of charity for relief of Palatines 1709, bankruptcies by 1715. Luttrell, Brief Relation, v. 601; Post Man, 13–16 Oct. 1705; Post Boy, 30 June–2 July 1709; L. K. J. Glassey, Appt. JPs, 236; Herts. RO, Hertford bor. recs. 5/35; Boyer, Anne Annals, viii. app. 41.

Parlimentarian

WOLLASTON, Richard (c.1669-1728), of Wormley, Herts. and Whitchurch, Hants.

Main residences: Wormley, Herts.; Whitchurch, Hants.

Author

P.W.

C.I.M.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

WOLLASTON, Richard (c.1669-1728)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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