William Woollett,
ENGRAVER,
Was born at Maidstone in 1735. He soon displayed an admirable talent for the art of engraving, and carried landscape engraving to a degree of beauty and perfection unknown before him. Nor was he less successful in historical subjects and portraits, as his reproduction of the "Death of General Wolfe," and the "Battle of la Hogue," after West, sufficiently prove. He became engraver to George III. He died 23rd May, 1785. He was buried in St. Pancras churchyard, and a monument is erected to him in Westminster Abbey.
[See Strutt's "Biographical Dictionary."]