William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768)

[1] He was born the eldest son of William Wollaston, MP and his wife Elizabeth Fauquier and educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School.

When the militia was embodied in 1778 during the War of American Independence, when the country was threatened with invasion by the Americans' allies, France and Spain, Wollaston commanded his battalion at a training encampment at Warley in Essex.

[2] He was a close friend of artist Thomas Gainsborough, with whom he shared a love of music.

In 1794 to pay off a gambling debt Wollaston sold the family estate of Finborough Hall to Roger Pettiward (d.1833), whose family owned the neighbouring estate at Onehouse.

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