Wolseley Explained

Wolseley may refer to:

People

• Sir Charles Wolseley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1630–1714), English politician
• Sir Charles Wolseley, 7th Baronet (1769–1846), English landowner and political agitator
• Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley (1872–1936), English gardener
• Frederick Wolseley (1837–1899), Irish-born Australian woolgrower and inventor of sheep shearing machinery
• Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833–1913), Irish-born British field marshal, elder brother of Frederick Wolseley
• George Wolseley (1839–1921), British Indian army officer
• John Wolesely (born 1938), British-Australian artist who worked with Aboriginal Australian artist Mulkun Wirrpanda
• Pat Wolseley, British botanist
• Sir Reginald Wolseley, 10th Baronet (1872–1933), emigrated to the US and initially refused the title
• Viscount Wolseley
• Wolseley baronets

Businesses

all taking their name from Frederick Wolseley (1837 - 1899)

• The Wolseley, a restaurant at 160 Piccadilly, London, in the former showroom of the Wolseley Motors building
• The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company, a British manufacturer of sheep shearing and other machinery, now Wolseley plc
  • Wolseley plc, a UK-based multinational building supplies company, previously The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company
    • Wolseley UK, the UK subsidiary of Wolseley plc
• The Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company, automobile manufacturer spun off to Vickers, Sons & Maxim renamed Wolseley Motors in 1914
  • Wolseley Motors, automobile manufacturer, owned in turn by Vickers, W R Morris, Morris Motors, BMC and British Leyland

Electorates

• Wolseley (Manitoba electoral district), provincial electorate in Manitoba
• Wolseley (Saskatchewan electoral district), former provincial electorate in Saskatchewan
• Qu'Appelle-Wolseley, former provincial electorate in Saskatchewan

Settlements

• Rural Municipality of Wolseley No. 155, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Wolseley, Saskatchewan, a town within the rural municipality
• Wolseley, South Australia, a town and former railway junction
• Wolseley, Staffordshire, an area within the parish of Colwich, including Wolseley Hall and Wolseley Centre
• Wolseley, Western Cape, a town in South Africa
• Wolseley, Winnipeg, Canada, a neighborhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba

Other locations

• Wolseley Battery, a coastal battery in Malta
• Wolseley Buttress, a place in Antarctica
• Wolseley River, a river in Ontario, Canada
• Wolseley Road, a residential street in Sydney, Australia
• Wolseley Hall, a demolished stately home in Staffordshire, England, subsequently the location of the Wolseley Centre