[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.
[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.
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