Alexander Luard Wollaston

Alexander Luard Wollaston FRS (14 June 1804 in Battersea – 10 June 1874 in Hollington, East Sussex) was an amateur scientist.[1][2]

The fourth son of George Hyde Wollaston (1765–1841),[3] Alexander Luard 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.[4]

On 16 March 1837 at Ryde he married Susanna Charlotte Morris (13 June 1807 – 1894). They had two sons and four daughters.

References
  1. "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. World Wide Wollastons, Ivor & Brenda Jackson's Family History Library, myweb.tiscali.co.uk
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