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Sir Nathan had six sons and four daughters; George, Nathan, Robert, Ezekiel, William, Thomas,
two Dorothys, and two Elizabeths; and was succeeded in estate by his eldest son George Wright,
Esq on whom, for the sake of his father's good services, and his own high merit, king William
bestowed the place of clerk of the crown. He was born at Barwell, May 25th, 1677; and married,
Jan 16, 1700, Mary, daughter of Thomas Bedford, Esq. Of Doilors Commons; by whom he had
three sons, Nathan, George, and Thomas, and five daughters. He purchased in 1704, for
œ27,000 the manors of Gayhurst and Stoke Goldington, in the county of Bucks, with the a
lvowson? of both churches, which will remain in his family; and died, at his home in New James
Street near Red Lion Square, March 6, 1724-5.
[Mr Pennant gives a pleasing view of Gayhurst; and says. "After passing Stoke Guldingin, a
beautiful vase opens on the left, watered by the Onze, running through rich meadows, and
embellished with the spure of Oulney church. About half a mile from its banks, on a rising ground
on the right, stands Gothurst, anciently Geythurst; whose venerable form has not been injured by
inconsistent alterations. It was begun in the 43d of queen Elizabeth, and was greatly improved a
few years after by William Mulsho, Esq. The windows are glazed with propriety; only part of the
back front is modernized. The lands are very finely dressed, and swell into extensive lawns. One
before the house consists of 128 acres; and on the sides are others great extent. The woods are
vast, and cut into walks extensive and pleasing. Several pretty piece of water; the view of the
Ouze and its verdant meadows; and the old respectable house of Tyringham, with his church, on
the opposite side, are not all embellishments to the place." Journey from Chester to London, p.
325]
Gayhurst church was re-built in pursuance of his will, as appears by an inscription over he West-
door:
The church is near the house, and very neat. The figures of father and son face you as you enter
the church; the first in his robes, the other in a plain gown; both furnished with enormous Parian
periwigs'.
George's son George, member for Leicoster 1727-1766, married, in May 1733, Barbara, daughter
of Sir Thomas Clarges, bart. He died in 1766; and his widow in 1799; leaving one son George,
and a daughter Barbara, both living in 1800.
George Wrighte, Esq, (the present owner of Gayhurst 1799) married Anne, daugher and heiress
of Joseph Jekyll Esq, of Dallington, co. Northampton, and the right honourable lady Anne Tekyll
his wife, formerly lady Anne Montague; and was left a widower December 5, 1798. Their only
son George a lieutenant in the Northamptonshire milita, died a Weymouth, where the regiment
was then stationed, June 4, 1793, and was buried at Gayhurst. On only daughter and heiress,
Anne, born in 1784, is now living, 1800.
Nathan Wrighte, M. A. the lord-keeper's second son, was B.A. of Brazen-nose College, Oxford,
in 1700 and 1702, when he wrote the following lines:
Ad Illustrissimum Georgeium Daniae Principen;
He was M. A. there June 5, 1702; and entering into holy orders, was presented to the restories of
Farnham Royal and Taplow, both in the county of Bucks; the former in the patronage of Eton
College, the latter in the gift of the Crown; and was installed a prebendary of Norwich, Nov 29,
1703. He married Anne, sole daughter and heiress of Lord Francis Powlett (second son of John
Powlett fifth marquis of Winchester by his second wife, Honora, daughter of the earl of
Clanrickard), with whom he obtained the estate and mansion-house of Englefield. By this lady Mr
Wrighte had three sons, Powlett, Francis, and Nathan, and a daughter Anne.
Powlett Wrighte, Esq. The eldest son of Nathan, married Mary, daughter of Richard Tyssen, Esq.
Of Hackney; and died of the small-pox Jul 6, 1741; leaving one infant son, Powlett, who married
a short time before his death a lady with whome he had long cohabited, to whom he left for life
œ800 a year, payable out of his estates, together with the som of œ8000 besides several very
considerable legacies to her relations. This lady died in Jun 1782.
Francis and Anne died unmarried.
Mr Nathan Wrighte, upon the death of his knephew, succeeded to the property at Englefield,
where he resided about three years; but, finding the estates, which had been diminished some
thousands a year by his nephew, unequal to support the establishment which had been kept up by
his grandfather, he removed to a small seat which he had built during his first wife's life at
Chicklade in the Wilts; where, and in Queen's Square, Bath, he resided till his death.
On Mr Wrighte's removal to Chicklade, Englefield-house was leased to lady Clive for seven
years; which time expiring in 1789; Mr Wrighte had removed his furniture, &c. And was about to
return to Englefield when he was seized with a fever, which terminated his life in a few days. His
first wife w as Elizabeth Dowle, of Cricklade, near Hindon, co. Wilts; his second, Elizabeth
Frewen, daughter of Mr Townsend, an architect of Oxford, and widow of the Rev John Frewen,
rector of Tortworth, co. Gloucester. His daughter and only child Selina was married, Sep 2,
1791, to the Rev James-Knight Moor, M. A. late of Sidney College, Cambridge, now under-
master in King Edward the Sixth's school at Sherborne, co Dorset; and has one son, John-Frewen
Moor. Mr Wrighte possessed considerable property in the parish of Mortimer, co Berks, but
never resided there. He built a neat hunting-seat at Chicklade, where he possessed an estate in
right of his first wife, which, owing to an informality in his will, and to an attorney not arriving till
he was deprived of his senses, passed, at his death (which happened at that place June 7, 1789), to
his heir at law Mr. Wrighte of Gayhurst, who sold it in 1797 for 3000 guineas. Leaving no issue,
the family of Sir Nathan Wrighte's second son became extinct; and the Englefield estates
devolved, according to the direction of the will of the last Powlett Wrighte, to his half-brother,
Richard Benyon, Esq of Guideahall, son of Governor Benyon, by Mary , the widow of the first
Powlett Wright, elder brother of the persons to whom a monument has been erected in Englefield
church, with the following inscription:
Robert Wrighte, Esq. The lord-keeper's third son, settle at Bombay, where he was twice
married.
Ezekiel Wrighe, Esq. The fourth son, had a son George, who died f.p.; and a daughter Anne,
who was three times married. Her fist husband's name was Mead; the second Fullerton; the
third Savile.
William Wrighe, Esq, the first son was recorder of Leicester from 1729 till 1762, when he
resigned the office on account of the ill state of his health. He married Susasnna, daughter and
coheiress of Thomas Levinge, Esq. Of Shepey, in the county of Leicester; by whom he had three
daughters;
Susanna, married to John-Gilbert Cooper, Esq, of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire, an author of
considerable celebrity, who died in April 1769;
Anne, married to Selwood Hewett, Esq, by whom she had two sons;
Catharine, married to Joseph Frame, Esq, a captain in the Royal Navy, both now living at Bath;
Dorothy, died at Hampstead, unmarried, 1779.
Mrs Wrighte died at Bath; and was buried in Walacote church in that city; where a small marble
tablet on the South wall is thus inscribed:
Thomas, the sixth and younest son, was admitted a commoner of Brazen-Nose, Feb 3, 1708 aet.
16; and, dying in 1710, was buried in the colisters of that college, with this inscriptionl:
Elizabeth and Dorothy, two of Sir Nathan's daughters, died young. A second Dorothy was
married to Harry Grey the third earl of Stamford; and died August 22, 1738, leaving issue two
sons and five daughters.
A second Elizabeth was married to Sir Samuel-Vanacker Sambrooke, bart. Who died at his house
in Chancery-lane, Dec 27, 1714, and was buried at Edmonton Jan 4, 1715. His widow survived
till December 1775, when she died in Hanover-square, at the great age of 94. By this lady Sir
Samuel had one son, Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, who represented the town of Bedford in parliament
from 1727 till his death, which happened at Bush Hill, Edmonton, Jul 5, 1740; and dying
unmarried, was succeeded in title, and an estate of œ1000 a year, by his uncle Sir Jeremy
Sambrooke, of Gubbins, Herts (second son of Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, knight); on whose death,
Oct 3, 1754, the title became extinct.
Sir Samuel-Vanacker Sambrooke had three daughters:
In the chancel of Dennington Church, Suffolk;
"Here lyeth the bodies of Robert Wrighte, Against the North wall, over the vestry-door:
On a monument in the South aile of Charlton Horethorne Church, co. Somerset, is this inscripton:
[Nicholas Vanacker, Esq. Of London, was created a baronet in 1700, with remainder (on failure
of male issue from himself and his brother John) to the heirs male of Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, of
London, Knt. Sir Nicholas Vanacker dying in 1703, and Sir John Vanacker in 1710; Sir Samue-
Vanacker Sambrooke succeeded to the title of baronet. Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, who was a
merchant of London, had been knighted on board the earl of Berkeley's ship, 31 Jan 1681-2, and
died in 1703. A sister of his was married to Humphrey Edwin, of London, merchant; who also
was knighted, at Whitehall, March 8, 1687; and was lord-mayor in 1698.]
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