George Newenham Wright (c. 1794–1877) was an
Irish
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writer and
Anglican
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clergyman. He was born in
Dublin
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; his father, John Thomas Wright was a doctor. He graduated B.A. from
Trinity College Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
, motto_lang = la
, motto_English = It will last i ...
in 1814 and M.A. in 1817, having been
elected a Scholar of the College in 1812.
D. J. O'Donoghue
David James O'Donoghue (22 July 1866 – 27 June 1917) was an Irish biographer and editor.
Early life
David James O'Donoghue was born in 1866 in Chelsea, London, to Irish parents, and grew up in the Hans Town area of Chelsea. He was the son of ...
, ‘Wright, George Newenham (1794/5–1877)’, rev. Elizabeth Baigent, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004 He married Charlotte Mulock in 1819.
He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to
St Mary Woolnoth
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, London.
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By 1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor with his wife. In 1861 he noted having a number of pupils boarding with him at Frome. By 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury Grammar School.][
He died on 24 March 1877 at Pierrepont Street, Bath.][
From the 1820s to the 1840s some minor topographical works and schoolbooks on subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy by Wright were published. There were several on Ireland, two of which have illustrations by George Petrie.][
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Works
*1821: ''An Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin'' (Petrie, George, illustrator). London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy (2nd ed 1825)
*--do.-- ''An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin''. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1980 (Facsim of: 2nd edition published London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1825)
*1822: ''A Guide to the Lakes of Killarney''
*1827: ''A Guide to the County of Wicklow''
*1831: ''Ireland Illustrated''
*1833: ''Scenes in North Wales''. London: T. T. & J. Tegg; reissued:
*1834: ''Scenes in Ireland''. London: Thomas Tegg and Son; Glasgow: R. Griffin and Co.; Dublin: W.F. Wakeman
*1843: ''China'' (Allom, Thomas, illustrator) London: Fisher, Son & Co.
*--do.--'' The Chinese Empire illustrated''. London : London Printing & Publishing Co., 858, 59.
*--do.-- --do.-- (reissued) Hong Kong: John Nicholson, 1988.
*1851: ''Belgium, the Rhine, Italy, Greece, and the shores and islands of the Mediterranean: illustrated in a series of ... engravings ...'' (text by) G. N. Wright & L. F. A. Buckingham. 2 vols. London: Peter Jackson
The Historic Guide to Bath published in 1864 by R E Peach of 8 Bridge Street, Bath
References
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1790s births
1877 deaths
19th-century Irish Anglican priests
Irish writers
Scholars of Trinity College Dublin