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WRIGHT, SIR WILLIAM SHAW, brother of Alfred Wright (qv); b. 9 Mar 1843; adm. Jan 1854 (James'); QS 1857; rowed v. Eton 3 Aug 1860; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1861 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 25 May 1861; BA 1865; MA 1868; one of a committee of Cambridge undergraduates who in 1863 drew up the first code of rules for Association Football; a corn merchant at Hull, Yorks.; Chairman, Hull and Barnsley Railway Co.; Chairman, Humber Conservancy Board; knighted 29 Jul 1914; JP Yorkshire North Riding 1913; m. 12 Jun 1866 Anna, second dau. of Benjamin Vipan, Sutton, Cambs.; d. 10 Nov 1914.

WRIGHT, THOMAS, son of Joseph Wright, City of London, goldsmith; b.; adm. from Chesterfield Sch., Derbs., (aged 17) Jan 1732/3; left 1734; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 May 1734, scholar, matr. 1735; BA 1737/8; MA 1741; ordained deacon 1 Jun 1740, priest 29 Jun 1740 (both Lincoln); Rector of Birkin, Yorks., from 23 Jun 1741; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II and III (occurs 1751-83); friend of Gray, Mason and Whitehead; m. 22 Feb 1742/3 Elizabeth Hall, Aylesbury, Bucks.; d. 28 Mar 1788.

WRIGHT, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1715; in under school list 1718.

WRIGHT, THOMAS, son of Thomas Wright, Coventry, Warwickshire, and Catherine --- (IGI); bapt. Holy Trinity, Coventry, Warwicks., 18 Jun 1707 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Jul 1718; Min. Can. 1721. [note will Thomas Wright, Coventry, Warwickshire, gentleman, proved PCC 14 Apr 1748]

Wright, Thomas Francis William, son of Charles Frederick Shuckburgh Wright, of Putney, Surrey, by Fanny Edwards, daughter of Thomas Coxhead, of Apornwen, Flints; b. April 23, 1900; adm. Jan. 14, 1915 (H); left July 1915; King's Coll., London; Fellow of the Institute of the Motor-Trade; an engineer 1923-37; ordained deacon 1941, priest 1942 (Ripon) and after serving in curacies at Leeds and Richmond, Yorks, was Curate of All Saints, Bedford, 1946-7; Rector of Yelden with Meldebourne, Beds, 1947-52; Rector of Holwell, Herts, 1952; served in A.S.C. (M.T.) in Great War I; m. June 8, 1935, Olive Muriel, daughter of Charles Fraser Marley, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles.

Wright, Terence Patrick, son of Lieut.-Col. Edward Constable Wright OBE and Annie Eliza­beth, d. of Henry T. Brickwell of Brixton; b. 19 Aug. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left Mar. 1926; sales man. Linotype Machinery Ltd; RNVR in WW2 (Lieut.); m. 17 Apr. 1944 Maureen Patricia, d. of S. A. R. Treanor of Bangor, Co. Down; d. 20 July 1974.

WRIGHT, SAMUEL; b.; adm. 17 Jul 1780.

WRIGHT, SAMPSON FIELDING CRESWICKE, only son of Sir Sampson Wright, Kt, Police Magistrate, Bow Street, London, and Sarah Simes (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 28 Aug 1766 (IGI); adm. 19 Apr 1773; KS (Capt. ) 1780; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1784, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1784, scholar 8 Apr 1785; BA 1789; MA 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 29 Jul 1783, called to bar 27 Jun 1789; d. 26 Apr 1804, aged 37.

WRIGHT, ROBERT; b.; in under school lists 1719, 1720.

WRIGHT, RICHARD; b. 24 Jul 1803; adm. 6 Jun 1817; left 1820; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Mar 1821, matr. 1821; BA 1825; ordained deacon (Norwich, lit. dim. from London) 18 Jun 1826.