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Sir Richard Michael Cory-Wright, 4th Baronet (born 17 January 1944) is the 4th
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Cory-Wright. Sir Richard is the son of Captain Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright (1916–1944) and Susan Esterel Elwes. Captain Cory-Wright was the oldest son of Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, the 3rd Baronet Baronet Cory-Wright.Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 906 Captain Cory-Wright was killed in action on 26 June 1944, aged 27, at Saint-Manvieu,
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in France, when Richard was only six months old.
Anthony John Julian Cory-Wright on thePeerage.com His mother remarried, in 1949, to Lt.-Col. Jocelyn Eustace Gurney. Richard Cory-Wright was educated at
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. He graduated with a BSc degree from Birmingham University in 1965. Richard Cory-Wright gained the rank of
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in the Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry. Richard Cory-Wright succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Cory-Wright on 23 March 1969. He married Veronica Mary Bolton in 1976. Their children are: Roland Anthony Cory-Wright (born 1979); Jonathan James Cory-Wright (born 1981); and Felix Michael Cory-Wright (born 1986). They were divorced in 1994. Richard Cory-Wright married Helga Wright (née Godfrey) in 1998.


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Cory-Wright on thePeerage.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cory-Wright, Richard 1944 births Alumni of the University of Birmingham Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College Living people