Background
Wright was born at Bramcote, Nottinghamshire the son of the scholar Ichabod Charles Wright and his wife Theodosia Denman.
Wright was born at Bramcote, Nottinghamshire the son of the scholar Ichabod Charles Wright and his wife Theodosia Denman.
He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
He was also a Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire. He resigned from parliament in 1870, due to ill health, by the procedural device of accepting the appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. In 1871 Wright was living at Heathfield Hall, Burwash, Sussex where his father died.
Wright owned Watcombe Park between Newton Abbot and Torquay (now known as Brunel Manor) where he and his family were living in 1881.
Later he was living at Hartendale Frensham Surrey, where he died at the age of 76. He was buried at the church of Street Thomas on the Bourne Farnham.
Wright married Blanche Louise Bingham, eldest daughter of Henry Bingham, in 1852.
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Wright was elected as one of the two Member of Parliament (MPs) for the constituency of Nottingham at the 1868 general election.
He was a good amateur musician.