Author: Wolseley, Robert
Biography:
WOLSELEY, Robert (1770-1815: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 3 Aug. 1770 and baptised on 25 Aug. at St. James’s, Piccadilly, the second son of Sir William Wolseley (1740-1817) and Charlotte Barbara Chambers (1746-1819), who had married in London in 1765. He was probably educated privately, and then entered Westminster School on 19 Jan. 1780 with his elder brother, Charles Wolseley (1769-1846). He proceeded to the Inner Temple on 15 June 1789 but his legal career (if any) is not known. In 1803 he was appointed Lt.-Colonel in the Staffordshire Militia. He married Mary Ann Hand (1783-1864), daughter of Rev. George Watson Hand, rector of St. Botolph’s, London, and archdeacon of Bristol, on 7 Feb. 1805 at St. Mary Abbot’s, Kensington, London. There was no issue. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1813 and was licensed as a stipendiary curate the following year in two Derbyshire parishes, Brailsford and Shirley. A Poetical Paraphrase (1811), his only known work, was a selection of psalms from a larger projected work, with its profits (if any) to be given to the Stafford General Infirmary. He died on 1 Sept. 1815 at Ockbrook, Derbyshire, and was buried there. (ancestry.co.uk 4 Apr. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 4 Apr. 2024; CCEd 4 Apr. 2024; G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, The Westminster School Registers from 1764 to 1883 [1892], 254; Bell’s Weekly Messenger 10 Feb. 1805; Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 11 Sept. 1815; GM Nov. 1815, 476; John Holland, The Psalmists of Britain [1843], 2: 273-4) AA