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Samuel Wright b. 1754 d. 1839

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Person:1451206

Lineage	Wright
Sex	Male
Full name (at birth)	Samuel Wright
Parents ♂ John Wright [Wright] b. 5 April 1723 d. 17 December 1789

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1754 birth:

1839 death:

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Source fr Samuel Wright

he headed for a military career, and became captain of the 15th regiment of hussars (light dragoons); he was also Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bunny Volunteers, a kind of local militia formed in 1798.

In the meantime he had married, on July 15, 1788, Anne Margaret of Coventry, daughter of George William, 6th Earl of Coventry (1722-1809) who was portrayed by Perronneau in 1773. Anne Margaret, born in 1757 in the region of Oxford, had for the occasion divorced in 1787 from Edward Foley (married in 1778), which caused a great stir in the two chambers of deputies at the time. The couple lived in Gunthorpe (a few kilometers east of Nottingham ), precisely Gunthorpe Lodge, until the death of Anne Margaret in 1822; Samuel was still living in Gunthorpe in 1824, before retiring to Upper Broughton, formerly Broughton Sunley, where he is buried.

In 1825, according to Broughton parish records, he married secondly Anne Foulkes (1805-1866); widowed in 1839, the latter inherited Samuel's property and remarried in 1846. Samuel therefore had no direct descendants. In all likelihood, Samuel Wright had left his portrait to his brother John at his death, who could not benefit from it only a year in his home at Lenton Hall in Nottingham, which he had had built in 1802; the painting found its way around 1845 to Osmaston Manor, the home John's son Francis had built at that time. He remained in the lineage until the 1950s. This portrait shows him in his prime, around 55 or 60 years old, in “sportsman” attire, with his riding habit, his top hat and his hunting whip.