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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/32/2
Former ReferenceD3287/31/13
TitleLetter from Richard Franklin Wright to his cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell
Date31 Mar 1852
Extent1 sheet
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderRichard F. Wright
Sender LocationWrangle Vicarage [Boston, Lincolnshire]
RecipientEleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient LocationNo address
Archive CreatorEleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Administrative HistoryRichard Franklin Wright (1819-1887) was the eldest son of Reverend Thomas Bailey Wright and his wife Henrietta (nee Franklin); he was the nephew of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and the cousin of Eleanor Isabella Gell. He studied at Oxford and went on to become a clergyman, being ordained a deacon in 1842 and priest in 1843. He succeeded his father as Vicar of Wrangle, Lincolnshire, 1858.
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