Wollaston Explained

Wollaston may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

• Cape Wollaston, Palmer Archipelago

Australia

• John Wollaston Anglican Community School, private school in Kelmscott, Perth, Western Australia
• Wollaston, Western Australia, suburb of Bunbury, Western Australia
• Wollaston Island (Western Australia), off the coast of Kimberley

Canada

• Wollaston, Ontario, a township
• Wollaston Islands (Nunavut)
• Wollaston Peninsula, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada
• Wollaston Lake, lake in north-eastern Saskatchewan
  • Wollaston Lake Airport
• Wollaston Lake, Saskatchewan, a village

Chile

• Wollaston Islands, group of islands near Cape Horn

England

• Wollaston, Northamptonshire
  • Wollaston School
• Wollaston, Shropshire
• Wollaston, West Midlands

Greenland

• Wollaston Foreland, peninsula in Northeast Greenland

United States

• Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts), neighborhood in Quincy, Massachusetts
  • Wollaston (MBTA station), MBTA station
  • Wollaston Beach, public beach
  • Wollaston Theatre, historic building
• Mount Wollaston, various locations in Quincy, Massachusetts

Moon

• Wollaston (crater), lunar crater

People

• Arthur Wollaston (1865–1933), English footballer, played for Aston Villa
• Sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston KCIE (1842–1922), Superintendent of Records, India Office
• Belinda Wollaston (born 1983), Australian musical theatre actor
• Charles Wollaston (1849–1926), English footballer, played for Wanderers and England
• Charlton Wollaston (1733–1764), English physician
• Charlton James Wollaston, English, of Wollaston et Compagnie, building the first international submarine telegraph cable (Dover-Calais) in 1851 with engineer Thomas Russell Crampton

• Francis Wollaston (scientist) (1694–1774)
• Francis Wollaston (astronomer) (1731–1815)
• Francis Wollaston (philosopher) (1762–1823)
• George Wollaston (1738–1826), Fellow of the Royal Society
• Gerald Wollaston (1874–1957), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London
• Sir Harry Wollaston (1846–1921), Australian public servant
• James Wollaston (1873–1918), English footballer, played for Small Heath
• John Wollaston (clergyman) (1791–1856), Anglican clergyman in Western Australia
• John Wollaston (painter), English-born American portraitist
• Richard Wollaston, English sea captain and pirate
• Sandy Wollaston (1875–1930), British explorer
• Dr Sarah Wollaston (born 1962), British general practitioner and MP for Totnes (2010–2019)
• Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822–1878), English entomologist and malacologist
• Tullie Cornthwaite Wollaston, opal dealer credited with introducing the claret ash to Australia at Raywood, Aldgate, SA
• William Wollaston (1659–1724), English philosophical writer
• William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1733) (1693–1764)
• William Wollaston (Ipswich MP elected 1768) (1730–1797)
• William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society

Other

• Wollaston Medal, awarded for work in geology
• Wollaston prism, optical device, invented by William Hyde Wollaston
• Wollaston's roundleaf bat, species of bat in the family Hipposideridae

See also

• Woolaston, a village in Gloucestershire
• Woollaston (disambiguation)
• Wollaston family tree