Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. Failed to remove flower. Wollaston’s sole publication Religion of Nature Delineated, on which his fame rests, appeared privately in 1722, and publicly two years later. The medal is the highest honor bestowed by the society; it was originally made of palladium, but is now made of gold. Wollaston’s theory is furiously mocked by David Hume in his Treatise of Human Nature (1740). In 1688 he unexpectedly inherited the great wealth of an identically named cousin, but had to support various parasitical relations. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Resend Activation Email. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. Failing to find a preaching position, Wollaston taught school in Birmingham for six years from 1682. This page was last modified 20:42, 13 April 2008. Relations with wealthier members of the family remained tense at the death of the increasingly dissipated grandfather in April 1674. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. For Edits select Suggest Edits on the memorial page. Try again later. William Wollaston (1693—1757) subscribed to Kirby's Historical Account. I thought you might like to see a memorial for William Wollaston I found on Findagrave.com. Wollaston, William (1659-1724): English Philosopher. After studies at the University of Cambridge, Wollaston became a schoolteacher in Birmingham (1682) and soon afterward was ordained a priest. Please contact Find a Grave at support@findagrave.com if you need help resetting your password. We have a volunteer within fifty miles of your requested photo location. Please try again later. As a result of his grandfather's financial embarrassment, and a consequent decline into drunkenness, Wollaston's father was apprenticed to a wool draper, but was unable to follow the trade owing to a speech impediment following a cancer of the mouth, retiring into the country where he lived on his family's uncertain charity.Wollaston first attended a local Latin school for a year at the age of ten, having to leave when he fell ill with a fever. Please enter location or other information that may help the volunteer in fulfilling this request. GREAT NEWS! Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. William Wollaston (1660-1724), Philosopher. Discovered palladium, rhodium. But he made little way, and failed to obtain a vacant physicianship at St. George's hospital; the result was that he abandoned medicine and took to original research. 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Among his other papers may be mentioned those dealing with the formation of fairy rings (1807), a synoptic scale of chemical equivalents (1814), sounds inaudible to ordinary ears (1820), the physiology of vision (1824), the apparent direction of the eyes in a portrait (1824) and the comparison of the light of the sun with that of the moon and fixed stars (1829). While Hume’s criticisms may not be wholly fair, Wollaston is best remembered as the object of Hume’s scorn. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Find out more about the greatest 17th Century Philosophers, including Galileo Galilei, John Locke, Voltaire, René Déscartes and Francis Bacon In 1821, after Hans Christian Oersted had shown that a magnetic needle is deflected by an electric current, he attempted, in the laboratory of the Royal Institution in the presence of Humphry Davy, to convert that deflection into a continuous rotation, and also to obtain the reciprocal effect of a current rotating around a magnet. the Moral Philosophy of William Wol laston STANLEY TWEYMAN William Wollaston,1 a leading British moral philosopher of the eighteenth century, has fallen into obscurity primarily, I believe, for two reasons. Wollaston, William (1659-1724): English Philosopher. English chemist and natural philosopher, born at East Dereham, Norfolk, on the 6th of April 1766, the second of seventeen children. Wollaston defends the unconventional view that many actions we perform implicitly assert propositions. Gender: Male . Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. In optics he was the first, in 1802, to observe the dark lines in the solar spectrum. Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). If you have questions, please contact support@findagrave.com. Year should not be greater than current year. William Wollaston, British Rationalist philosopher and moralist whose ethical doctrines influenced subsequent philosophy as well as that of his own time. This page has been accessed 13,866 times. William Hyde Wollaston. Enter a valid email address and a feedback message. Try again later. He then attended Lichfield School, but these were tense times in his family and he gained little from his schooling. O. Joynton, “The Problem of Circularity in Wollaston’s Moral Philosophy,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (1984): 435-443. http://www.enlightenment-revolution.org/index.php/Wollaston%2C_William. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. (1787) and M.D. Wollaston was born in 1659 in Coton-Clanford, Staffordshire. × based on information from your browser. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional, No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Plese check the I'm not a robot checkbox.'. A rich cousin of his father, William Wollaston of Shenton, promised him patronage if he studied at Cambridge, and he accordingly went to Sidney Sussex College, where the brother of his schoolmaster was a fellow. He was an moral philosopher, at Coton Clanford, Staffordshire, was the second son of William Wollaston (1634–1691) and Elizabeth Downes (1628–1707), the daughter of a local country gentleman. At one time a fabulously wealthy family, the Wollastons made their money in the wool trade and bought Finborough Hall in Suffolk for £10000 in the 1650s, although this was not their primary residence. Uploading your photo ( s ) this account before you can sign in attempts found more than one for. 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