WRIGHT, PEREGRINE; b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1739/40 (Hawkins'); left 1747.
Wright, Paul Herve Giraud, 1915-2005
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, NATHAN, son of Matthew Wright, Stepney, Middlesex; b.; adm. (aged 16) Apr 1734; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1734/5, Yate scholar 17 Dec 1735; BA 1738; living 1742; not removed from BNC books until 1806 (sic). [Perhaps adm. Inner Temple year 1734/5]. [note will Nathan Wrighte, Tidmarsh, Berks., proved PCC 3 Jul 1789]
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, JOSEPH; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1737; left 1740.
WRIGHT, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 173/2.
WRIGHT, JOHN, son of James Wright, Silver Street, Golden Square, London, corn dealer, also of Springwell, Saffron Walden, Essex, and of Harlesden, Middlesex, and Mary ---; b. 28 Mar 1834; adm. 16 Jan 1845; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jul 1852, Foundress scholar 8 Nov 1853; rowed v. Oxford 1854; BA 1856; MA 1860; adm. solicitor Mich. 1859; Registrar, Bloomsbury County Court, from 1865; [unm. in 1881]; d. 10 Nov 1897.
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, 1848-1907
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.