Background
Wolseley was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wolseley, who had been created a baronet by Charles I in 1628, and succeeded to the baronetcy on 21 September 1646.
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Career
He held high office during the Commonwealth. He was subsequently elected for Staffordshire in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate. In 1658, he was appointed to Cromwell"s new Upper House.
He represented Stafford in the Convention Parliament of 1660, and was pardoned at the Restoration.
Thereafter he retired from public life, but published a number of pamphlets on ecclesiastical matters. In 1685, Wolseley was arrested on suspicion of complicity in Monmouth"s Rebellion, but was subsequently released.
He was buried in Westminster Abbey, and, unlike many of his contemporaries, not disinterred after the reformation. Dean Stanley describes his earthen grave in the southern portion of the Montpensier chapel.
Wolseley married Ann Fiennes, youngest daughter of Viscount Saye and Sele.
Robert Wolseley (died 1697), Envoy-Extraordinary to the Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands, died unmarried
Charles Wolseley, died without issue
Fiennes Wolseley, died young
Sir William Wolseley, 3rd Baronet (c 1660-1728), who as oldest surviving son succeeded his father
Sir Henry Wolseley, 4th Baronet (died 1730)
Captain Richard Wolseley, father of Sir William Wolseley, 5th Baronet
James Wolseley
Elizabeth, who married Robert Somervile and was the mother of the poet William Somervile
Mary, who married Richard Edwards
Anne, who married John Berry
Dorothy
Bridget
Penelope, died young
Susan, who married Charles Wedgwood
Penelope
Frances
Constance.
Membership
He entered Parliament as Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in the nominated Barebones Parliament of 1653, and on the establishment of the Protectorate later the same year was appointed to the Council of State.
