title: George Wollaston
text: # George Wollaston
  
  George Wollaston (1738–1826) was an English Anglican priest. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.
  
  He was the son of Francis Wollaston (1694-1774). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated second wrangler in 1758. He married in 1765 Elizabeth Palmer of Thurnscoe Hall and they had a single daughter Elizabeth Palmer Wollaston who died in infancy (17 April 1766).
  
  