Gerald Wollaston
Officer of arms at the College of Arms, London (1874 - 1957)
Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston KCB KCVO (2 June 1874 – 4 March 1957) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Wollaston's family had a firm tradition at the College of Arms. Wollaston's great-grandfather was Sir William Woods, Garter Principal King of Arms from 1838 until his death in 1842. His grandfather was Sir Albert William Woods who held the same post from 1869 to 1904.[1]
Wollaston was born at his grandfather's home at 69 St George's Road, Warwick Square, London on 2 June 1874 and baptised at St Benet's, Paul's Wharf on 12 July. He attended Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a student of the Inner Temple from 22 June 1895 and was called to the Bar on 26 January 1899.[2]
Wollaston's first heraldic post came in 1902 with his appointment as Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary.[3] This appointment came on the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in that year. He held this post until becoming a member of the College chapter on 11 January 1906 as Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.[4]
On 26 February 1919, Wollaston was promoted to the office of Richmond Herald of Arms in Ordinary. He remained a herald in ordinary until 1929, when he was appointed Norroy King of Arms.[5] He became Garter Principal King of Arms in 1930 to replace Henry Burke.
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1935 New Year Honours[6] and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1937 Coronation Honours.[7] Wollaston retired from the post of Garter in 1944 to become the second Norroy and Ulster King of Arms[8] and served as such until his death in 1957.
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References
- ^ "Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston". The Times. 5 March 1957. p. 10.
- ^ Crisp, Frederick Arthur, ed. (1904). Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. 12. p. 74. OCLC 53240300. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "No. 27440". The London Gazette. 6 June 1902. p. 3681.
- ^ "No. 27874". The London Gazette. 12 January 1906. p. 270.
- ^ "No. 31206". The London Gazette. 28 February 1919. p. 2856.
- ^ "No. 34119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1934. pp. 1–18.
- ^ "No. 34396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 May 1937. pp. 3073–3106.
- ^ "No. 33409". The London Gazette. 3 July 1928. p. 5207.
- ^ Godfrey, Walter H; Wagner, Anthony (1963). "'Garter King of Arms', in Survey of London Monograph 16, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street (London, 1963), pp. 38-74". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
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| Preceded by Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee | Bluemantle Pursuivant 1906 – 1919 | Succeeded by Hon. Philip Cary |
| Preceded by | Richmond Herald 1919 – 1928 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Sir Arthur William Stuart Cochrane | Norroy King of Arms 1928 – 1930 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Garter Principal King of Arms 1930 – 1944 | |
| Preceded by | Norroy and Ulster King of Arms 1944 – 1957 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor 1931-1957 | Succeeded by |
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Wollaston family tree
| William Wollaston priest, master and scholar (1659–1724) | Catherine Charlton (1670–1720) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Francis Fauquier bank director (1672–1726) | Elizabeth Chamberlayne (1676–1748) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Francis Wollaston scientist (1694–1774) | Mary Fauquier (1702–1773) | Francis Fauquier governor (1703–1768) | Elizabeth Fauquier (1706–1764) | William Wollaston MP (1693–1764) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Wollaston army colonel and MP (1731–1797) | Frederick Wollaston (1735–1801) | Priscilla Ottley (1740–1819) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Heberden physician (1710–1801) | Mary Wollaston (1730–1813) | Francis Wollaston priest and astronomer (1731–1815) | Althea Hyde (1738–1798) | Charlton Wollaston physician (1733–1764) | George Wollaston priest (1738–1826) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas Heberden priest (1754–1843) | Althea Hyde Wollaston (1760–1785) | Francis John Hyde Wollaston natural philosophy professor (1762–1823) | George Hyde Wollaston (1765–1841) | Mary Anne Luard (1774–1817) | William Hyde Wollaston chemist and physicist (1766–1828) | Henry John Wollaston (1770–1833) | Louisa Symons (1784–1833) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander Luard Wollaston (1805–1874) | Susannah Charlotte Morris (1807–1894) | Henrietta Wollaston (1807–1873) | George Pollock army field-marshal and baronet (1786– 1872) | Frances Buchanan (1786–1827) | Henry Septimus Hyde Wollaston (1776–1867) | Mary Ann Blanckenhagen (1778–1805) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Julia Adye Catharine Buchanan (1816–1910) | George Buchanan Wollaston architect and botanist (1814–1899) | Charles Buchanan Wollaston priest (1816–1887) | Eleanor Reynolds (1824–1891) | Thomas Vernon Wollaston entomologist and malacologist (1822–1878) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Francis Wollaston (1803–1876) | Elizabeth Rumsey Naylor (1816–1879) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| George Hyde Wollaston (1844–1926) | Sarah Constance Richmond (1847–1931) | Stanley George Buchanan Wollaston (1848–1923) | Caroline Elizabeth Harper (1854–1898) | Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston footballer (1849–1926) | Arthur Naylor Wollaston civil servant and author (1842–1922) | Caroline Marianne Woods (1844–1902) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander Richmond Wollaston surgeon and explorer (1875–1930) | Herbert Arthur Buchanan Wollaston navy rear-admiral (1878–1975) | Margaret Ermyntrude Buchanan Wollaston (1885–1944) | Charles Earle Raven theology professor (1885—1964) | Gerald Woods Wollaston herald (1874–1957) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Earle Raven philosopher (1914–1980) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: Source: Wollaston Family Tree
Family tree of the Wollaston family
