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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.

YOUNG, FREDERICK, eldest son of Anthony William Young, merchant, and Mary ---; b. 9 Jun 1842; adm. 21 Jan 1858 (James'); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1861; BA 1865; MA 1874; ordained deacon 1865, priest 1866 (both London); Curate, St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London 1865-6; Chaplain, St. Jean de Luz, France 1867-8, Zante, Ionian Islands 1869-72; Vicar of North Reston, Lincs., 1872-82; Chaplain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1878-88; Curate, Swinton, Yorks., 1888-90, Keynsham, Somerset 1890-3; Rector of Llanfoist, Monmouthshire 1893-1914; m. 9 Aug 1877 Laura Frances Augusta, eldest dau. of Rev. John Edward Alexander Inge, Rector of Gayton-le-Marsh, Lincs.; d. 12 Mar 1917.