John ramsden wollaston biography
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John Ramsden Wollaston
In 1840, in response to advertisements bygd the Western Australian nation Company offering land for settlement at Australind on Port Leschenault, Western Australia, Wollaston decided to take up nation there. He did this believing he would be appointed a colonial chaplain but the appointment did not eventuate and he decided to come out independently, although eventually the British Government assured him an tjänsteman stipend if he went to Western Australia.
Wollaston arrived at Fremantle in April 1841 and took the initiative in reviving the organisation of the Colony’s Church of England. In February 1842 he convened a conference of the colony’s fem clergy in Perth, where the church’s problems were assessed and a statement drawn up urging Bishop Broughton to visit Western Australia and set matters in beställning. The sequel was discouraging; Broughton could not komma and Wollaston could not implement his suggestion that clergy conferences should become annual. In May 1842,
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Local Saint
John Ramsden Wollaston
Wollaston died on 3 May 1856 and his remains were buried in the cemetery on Middleton Road, Albany, with Henry Camfield officiating. The original tombstone bore the words of Psalm 116 v15: 'Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints'. Obituaries were published on page 2 of The Inquirer on 14 May and on page 2 of the Perth Gazette on 16 May.
Wollaston's widow and daughter left on the ‘Augusta Kaufman’ on 24 December 1856 bound for South Australia.
A marble plaque on the walls of St John’s, Albany, commemorates his ministry as well as a stained-glass window and there is also in that Church the silver Communion Plate which he used. Streets in Albany and Armadale and another in the immediate vicinity of the Wollaston Theological College were named in his honour as well as two in Wollaston, a suburb of Bunbury. In the Picton church there is a plaque and, in the church yard, a memorial stone cross: another plaque marks the site o
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John Wollaston (priest)
Western Australian Anglican clergyman
John Ramsden Wollaston (28 March 1791 – 3 May 1856) was an Anglican priest who was instrumental in the establishment of the Church of England in Western Australia.[1]
Wollaston was born in London and educated at Charterhouse School where his father, Edward Wollaston, was a master. After taking holy orders, in May 1819 he married Mary Amelia Gledstanes with whom he had five sons: John R Wollaston, William E Wollaston, Henry N Wollaston, George G Wollaston and Edward C Wollaston and five daughters: Elizabeth M Wollaston, Mary E Wollaston, Mary A Wollaston, Agnes E Wollaston and Sophia C Wollaston. In 1840 Wollaston applied for the position of Chaplain for the Western Australian Land Company, a speculative venture that was seeking emigrant settlers to go to Australind, Western Australia, near Port Leschenault. The company failed to appoint him officially but continued to promote the venture by saying