George Buchanan Wollaston (26 April 1814, Clapton, Middlesex – 26 March 1899, Chislehurst, London Borough of Bromley)[1] was an English architect, watercolourist, and amateur botanist.
[2] Much of his family had lived in Chislehurst and his paternal grandfather Francis Wollaston was Anglican rector there from 1769 to 1815.
[4][5] After this inheritance he worked very little as an architect and devoted himself to botanical study involving collecting and growing plants, especially ferns[2] (and some orchids).
[2] Frederick Janson Hanbury and Edward Shearburn Marshall mention Wollaston's name 33 times in their 1899 book Flora of Kent.
In May 1981 the Covent Garden Gallery at 20 Great Russell Street exhibited some of Wollaston's watercolour drawings of rural England in the 1880s.