Person:Lawrence Wright (1)

WRIGHT FAMILY HISTORY, WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY

MATRICULATED AS A PENSIONER OF EMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, IN MARCH, 1608, AND PROCEEDED B.A. THE SAME YEAR. ENTERED AS A MEDICAL STIDENT AT LEYDON, (NETHERLANDS) ON AUGUST 22, 1612, BUT GRADUATED M.A. AT CAMBRIDGE IN 1618. HE WAS ADMITTED A CANDIDATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS DEC. 22,1618, ADMITTED A FELLOW DEC. 1622, CENSOR IN 1628 AND 1639; NAMED AN ELECT MAY 24, 1642, CONSILARIUSIN 1647 AND AGAIN FROM 1650 UNTIL HIS DEATH OCT. 3, 1657.

PHYSICIAN IN THE ORDINARY TO CROMWELL AND TO THE CHARTERHOUSE; TO THE LATER POST HE WAS ELECTED MAY 25, 1624, AND RESIGNED IN 1643. hE WAS CHOSEN GOVERNOR OF THE CHARTERHOUSE MCH. 21, 1652

HE OWNED PROPERTY IN HENHAM AND HAVERING, ESSEX. I THINK HE OWNED THE MANOR OF DAGENHAMS , SINCE HE WAS GIVEN THE RIGHT TO DEFOREST IT IN 1637. HIS SON OWNED THE MANOR, SO I CONJECTURE HE INHERITED IT FROM HIS FATHER, WHO ALSO INHERITED IT. INTERESTING MEMORIALS TO THIS BRANCH AT THE CHURCH AT SOUTH WEALD. tHEY WERE MOVED DURING A 1868 CHURCH RENOVATION, AND SOME ARE OUTSIDE, SOME IS THE TOWER (ON MAIN FLOOR OF THE CHURCH) AND SOME IN THE TOWER BELL ROOM.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wright, Curtis. Genealogical and Biographical Notices of Descendants of Sir John Wright of Kelvedon Hall, Essex England, in America, Thomas Wright of Wethersfield, Conn., Samuel Wright, of Northampton, Mass., 1610-1670, 1614-1665. (Carthage, Mo.: The Author, 1915)
   pages 68-69.