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WRIGHT, PEREGRINE; b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1739/40 (Hawkins'); left 1747.

Wright, Sir Paul Hervé Giraud, son of Richard Hervé Giraud Wright, sec. White's Club, and Ellen Margaret, d. of Lewis William Mercier; b. 12 May 1915; adm. Sept. 1928 (G); left July 1932; John Lewis Partnership 1933-9; KRRC 1939-45 (Maj.), HQ 21 Army Group 1944-5, despatches (NW Europe) Apr. 1946; contested (L) NE Bethnal Green 1945; asst dir. of public relations NCB 1946-8; dir. of public relations Festival of Britain 1948-51; Press Officer UK del­egation to United Nations, New York, 1951; OBE 1952; entered HM Foreign Service 1953; 1st Sec. The Hague 1956; Counsellor 1957, Head of FO Information Policy Dept; CMG 1960; Counsellor and Chargé d' Affaires Cairo 1960-1; Counsellor UK delegauon to NATO, Paris, 1961-4; Dir.-Gen. British Information Services New York 1964-8, Minister (Information) Washington DC 1965-8; HM Ambassador to the Congo (now Zaire) 1968-71; HM Ambassador to Lebanon 1971-5; KCMG June 1975; special representative of the Sec. of State for For­eign Affairs 1975-8; chairman Irvin (GB) Ltd 1979-88; FRSA; a Busby Trustee 1977-; Pres. Elizabethan Club 1988-; author of A Brittle Glory (autobiog.) 1986; m. 23 May 1942 Beatrice Frederika Rathbone MP, widow of Flt Lieut. John Rankin Rathbone RAVFR MP, and d. of Frank Roland Clough of Boston, Mass., USA; d. 10 June 2005.

WRIGHT, LAWRENCE, son of John Wright, Essex; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 15) 1648; KS 1650; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1652, adm. pens. 2 Jul 1652; 5th in “ordo” 1655/6; BA 1655/6; MA 1659; MD 1666; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1656 – c. 1667, Tutor 1660-4.

WRIGHT, JAMES, son of Robert Wright, Harlesden, Middlesex, High Bailiff, Bloomsbury County Court, and Elizabeth Wrightson, Staines, Middlesex; nephew of John Wright (adm. 1845, qv); b. 23 Sep 1867; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (G); left 1883; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Oct 1885; BA 1888; MA 1892; adm. solicitor Dec 1892; Registrar, Bloomsbury County Court; Registrar, Brentford and Uxbridge County Courts Dec 1922-; m. 12 Nov 1899 Dorothy, dau. of John Howard, Harlesden, Middlesex; d. 19 Feb 1942.

WRIGHT, HERBERT EDWARDS, only son of Robert Wright, Principal of Lancing GS, Sussex, and Anne, dau. of William Buck; b. 16 Aug 1848; adm. 28 Jul 1862 (James'); QS 1863; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1867 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 15 Aug 1867; BA 1871; MA 1891; adm. Inner Temple 30 Jan 1869; had a brewery at Maxton, near Dover, Kent, for some years; brewer-manager with Arnold Perrott & Co, Wickwar, Gloucs., and subsequently with Tennants Brewery, Glasgow; author, A Handbook for Young Brewers, 1877; m. 20 Feb 1873 Jessie Anne, eldest dau. of George Keningdale Cook, Hammersmith, Middlesex; d. 2 Feb 1907.

WRIGHT, HENRY, son of George Wright, Paddington, Middlesex; b.; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1687, matr. 15 Jul 1687, aged 20, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1687 – void 1713; BA 1691; MA 1694; Assistant Master, Oakham Sch. 1700-2, Head Master from 1702; ordained; Rector of Asfordby, Leics., from 29 Jun 1723; d. 1724.

Wright, Henry Noel Payton, son of Edwin Payton Wright, of Brunswick Square, London, by Amy, daughter of Francis Thomas Dollman, F.R.I.B.A., of Gloucester Crescent, Regents Park, London; b. Jan. 1, 1871; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (G); left April 1888; d. 1898.

Wright, Gerald Shuckburgh, brother of Thomas Francis William Wright (q.v.); b. May 28, 1902; adm. April 29, 1915 (H); left April 1916; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. (M.T.); an automobile engineer; Lieut. R.A.S.C. Dec. 18, 1939; served in France 1940, and in Somaliland 1940-2; m. March 14, 1935, Marie Hester, daughter of Charles Sidney Burdett, of Johannesburg, South Africa.

WRIGHT, FRANCIS; b.; adm.; KS ; failed to obtain election to either university 1616.

Wright, Francis Blower, son of H. F. Wright, of Chiswick, Middlesex; b. March 25, 1893; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); left Dec. 1909.