LAURENCE WRIGHT (1590-1657)
"Dictionary of National Biography"
London, England, 1900
WRIGHT, LAURENCE (1590-1657), physician, third son of John Wright of Wright's Bridge,
near Hornchurch in Essex, was born in 1590, matriculated a pensioner of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, in March 1608, and proceeded B.A. the following year. He entered
as a medical student at Leyden on 22 Aug 1612, but graduated M.A. at Cambridge in 1618.
He was admitted a candidate of the Royal College of Physicians on 22 Dec 1618, elected
fellow on 22 Dec 1622, censor in 1628 and 1639, named an elect on 24 May 1642,
conciliarius in 1647, and again from 1650 annually till his death in 1657. Wright
was a physician in ordinary to Cromwell and to the Charterhouse. To the latter post
he was elected on 25 May 1624, and resigned it in 1643. He was chosen governor of the
Charterhouse on 21 March 1652.
Wright, who was possessed of property at Henham and Havering in Essex, died on
3 Oct 1657, and was buried in the church of South Weald. He married Mary, daughter
of John Duke, physician, of Foulton Hall, Ramsey, Essex, and Colchester. She survived
him till 16 Feb 1698, being also buried at South Weald.
Of Wright's two sons, Laurence was expelled from a fellowship at Trinity College,
Cambridge, during the Commonwealth, but readmitted in 1660, and took the degree of
M.D. in 1666. A second son (1636-1663), Henry, who was added to the trade committee
of the council of state on 5 Feb 1656, was made a baronet by Cromwell on 10 April
1658, in which dignity he was confirmed on 11 Jun 1660; he married Anne (d. 1708),
daughter of John Crew, first baron Crew of Stene, by whom he had a son and a daughter;
the baronetcy expired on the death of his son in 1681.
Laurence Wright of Wright's Bridge, is a descendant
of the Kelvedon Hatch Wrights and is listed as a descendant of that line in our
Kelvedon Descendants list.
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