William Wolseley

Life
?1640-1967; br. of Charles Wolseley.; Brig-Gen. served in Ireland, Col. of Inniskilling horse; defeated Justin MacCarthy titular viscount Mountcashel, at Newtown-Butler, 1689; took Cavan, 1690; Battle of Boyne, and Aughrim, 1690-91; master gen. of ordnance in Ireland, 1692l brig. of all horse, 1693; lord justice and privy councillor, 1696. ODNB

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