Wolley
Wolley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Elizabeth Wolley (1552–1600), English courtier * Hannah Wolley (or Wolley, 1622–1675), English writer *John Wolley (1823–1859), English naturalist *John Wolley John Wolley (13 May 1823 – 20 November 1859) was an English naturalist best known for his large collection of oology, bird eggs and studies on the dodo and great auk. Life and work Wolley was born at Matlock, Derbyshire, Matlock on 13 May 1 ...

Elizabeth Wolley
Elizabeth Wolley (née More; 28 April 1552 – 21 January 1600) was one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies of the Privy Chamber. She was the eldest daughter of Sir William More of Loseley, Surrey, and his second wife, Margaret Daniell, and the wife of the Queen's Latin secretary, Sir John Wolley, and the Queen's Lord Chancellor, Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley. Family Elizabeth More was born on 28 April 1552, the eldest of the three children of Sir William More of Loseley, Surrey, and his second wife, Margaret Daniell, the daughter and heiress of Ralph Daniell of Swaffham, Norfolk, by Katherine Marrowe. She was born in London at the house of her great-uncle, George Medley (d. 1554), esquire, mercer and Merchant of the Staple, and was baptised 1 May 1552. A London haberdasher, John Whetstone, was her godfather, and she had two godmothers, her great-aunt, Elizabeth Medley (née Marrowe, wife of George Medley), and her paternal grandmother, Alice Polsted. She had a youn ...
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John Wolley
John Wolley (13 May 1823 – 20 November 1859) was an English naturalist best known for his large collection of oology, bird eggs and studies on the dodo and great auk. Life and work Wolley was born at Matlock, Derbyshire, Matlock on 13 May 1823. His father was Reverend John Hurt and his mother Mary was the daughter of Adam Wolley who was an antiquarian. After the death of his father-in-law in 1827, John Hurt assumed the name of Wolley. John Wolley obtained his early education at Mr. Fletcher's preparatory school in Southwell and then moved to Eton in 1836. He moved in 1842 to Trinity College, Cambridge. He had already become interested in nature and spent a lot of time in the woods and fens around Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. In 1845 he travelled to Spain. He began to collect the eggs of birds both on his own and through other collectors. He graduated with a BA in January 1846 and moved to London with the intention of studying law at the Middle Temple. He spent a lot ...
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Hannah Wolley
Hannah Woolley, sometimes spelled Wolley, (1622 – c.1675) was an English writer who published early books on household management; she was probably the first person to earn a living doing this. Life Her mother and elder sisters were all skilled in "Physick and Chirurgery" and she learned from them. Nothing is known of her father.Considine, John; Wolley, Hannah (b. 1622?, d. in or after 1674)Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004 From 1639 to 1646 Woolley worked as a servant for an unnamed woman, almost certainly Anne, Lady Maynard (d. 1647), during which time she learned about medical remedies and recipes. She married Jerome Woolley, a schoolmaster, in 1646 and together with him ran a free grammar school at Newport, in Essex. This is very near the Maynard family's house at Little Easton. In the school she put into practice her skills at "physick". A few years later, the Woolleys opened a school in Hackney, London. She had at least four sons and ...
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