Robert Wright, B.D., Rector of Dennington

From A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... by John Burke, John Bernard Burke (sir):

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Wrighte, of Cranham Hall (created 15th Feb. 1666 - extinct 10th Jan. 1737/8)

Lineage:

The Rev. Robert Wrighte, B.D. for 34 years Rector of Dennington in Suffolk (second son of John Wrighte, of Wrighte's Bridge, Essex, and brother of the ancestor of the Wrightes, of Dagenhams), married Jane, daughter of John Butler, Esq., of Shelby in Essex, and sister of Oliver Butler, of Sharbrook in Bedfordshire. The Rev. Robert Wrighte died in 1624.

By her, he had issue:

• 1. Euseby, barrister-at-law, who married thrice, but d.s.p.
• 2. Nathan, a merchant and alderman of London, purchased the manor of Cranham in Essex. He married Anne Fleming, of Warley Place, and dying in 1657, was succeeded by his son,
  • 1. Benjamin Wrighte, Esq., of Cranham Hall, Essex, who was created a Baronet in 1660. He married Jane, daughter of William Williams, merchant of London, and dying in 1706, was succeeded by his son.
    • 1. Sir Nathan Wrighte, of Cranham Hall, who married first Anne, daughter of John Merick, merchant; secondly Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Bragg, Esq., of Hatfield Peverell in Essex; thirdly Elizabeth, daughter of John Bowater, Esq., of Coventry; and fourthly Abigail, daughter of Samuel Trist, Esq., of Culworth in Nottinghamshire. By the first he had a son, Nathan, his heir; and by the last, another son, Samuel, and a daughter Elizabeth who married to Gen. Oglethorpe. Sir Nathan died 16th October 1727 aged 66, and was succeeded by his son.
      • 1. Sir Nathan Wrighte, of Cranham Hall, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Lawley, Baronet of Spoonhill in Shropshire. Sir Nathan died in 1737, aged 53, and was succeeded by his half-brother. He had two daughters, his co-heris, vis.
        • 1. Ann, married to Thomas Lewis, Esq., of Harpton Court, MP, for the borough of Radnor, from the death of Queen Anne to the beginning of the reign of George III. At Mr. Lewis' demise, his Radnorshire estates devolved on his nephew, John Lewis, Esq., father of the Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, now of Harpton court. Mrs. Lewis survived her husband many years, and devised the estates which she inherited from her father, Sir Nathan Wrighte, at Lofts near Malden in Essex, to her nephew, Sir Thomas Hussey Apreece, Baronet.
        • 2. Dorothy, married to Thomas Hussey Apreece, Esq., and was mother of Thomas Hussey Apreece, created a baronet in 1782. His son is the present Sir Hussey George Apreece, Baronet.
      • 2. Sir Samuel Wrighte, who died unmarried at Lisbon, 10th January 1737/8, when the baronetcy became extinct.
• 3. Benjamin (Sir), knt. of Dennington, a merchant of London, who died in Spain, leaving an only daughter.
• 4. Ezekiel, D.D., rector of Thurcaston, who married Dorothy, second daughter of John Onebye, Esq., and co-heir of her brother, Sir John Onebye, by whom (who died in 1691) he left at his decease in 1688, a son and successor, the celebrated...
  • 1. Sir Nathan Wrighte, who succeeded Lord Somers in the custody of the great seal, as Lord Keeper, and contineud in that elevated office until 1765. (For a continuation of Sir Nathan's line, until it merged in the Wyndhams of Cromer, see that family in Burke's Commoners, vol. ii, p. 245.)