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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Read, John

​READ, JOHN (fl. 1588), surgeon, probably belonged to a family settled at Tewkesbury. While living in Gloucester in 1587 he was instrumental in causing a quack to be prosecuted. He came to London in 1588, and was admitted a foreign brother of the company of Barber-Surgeons—that is to say, a surgeon who practised his profession under licence from the company and yet had never been apprenticed to a freeman. He belonged to that band of surgeons, including Clowes, Gale, Halle, and Banester, who in the later years of Elizabeth's reign set themselves to improve the position of English surgery. Like them, Read wrote in English, and sought to free his art from the quackery which then formed an abundant leaven in it. Read even went so far as ‘to affirme that all chirurgians ought to be seene in physicke, and that the Barbers craft ought to be a distinct mistery from chirurgery,’ a desire which was not accomplished until 1745 as regards the separation nor until 1868 as regards the ​combination of medicine and surgery. Read was in personal relations with the surgical reformers. He dedicated his book to Banester, Clowes, and Pickering, and married, on 24 June 1588, Banester's daughter Cicily. In the same year he published ‘A most Excellent and Compendious Method of curing Woundes in the Head and in other Partes of the Body with other Precepts of the same Arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus … whereunto is added the exact Cure of the Caruncle … with a Treatise of the Fistulæ in the Fundament and other places of the Body; translated out of Johannes Ardern; and also the Description of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his Use and Vertues. … Lond., by Th. East,’ 4to (Hazlitt, Collections, 3rd ser. Suppl. p. 4). Prefixed to the translation is ‘A Complaint of the Abuses of the Noble Art of Chirurgerie,’ written in metre by Read (Ritson, Bibliogr. Poet. p. 310).
D’A. P.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Read, Richard

​READ, RICHARD (1745?–1790?), engraver, was a pupil of James Caldwall [q. v.] in 1771, when he gained a premium of the Society of Arts for drawing. He was also taught by Bartolozzi, but produced rather slovenly work both in stipple and mezzotint. He worked as an engraver till about 1790, when he abandoned his practice to become a dealer, and printed many of Bartolozzi's worn-out plates. He died towards the end of the century.
He engraved in mezzotint a portrait of John Herries, after Martin; ‘A Dutch Lady,’ after Rembrandt; ‘The Sisters,’ after James Nixon; ‘Scene from Winter's Tale,’ after Paul Sandby (all in 1776). Among his principal stipple engravings are: ‘A Country Girl,’ after J. Boydell, 1778; ‘The Finding of Moses,’ after E. Le Sueur, 1779; ‘Beauty and Hymen,’ after Cipriani, 1783; and ‘Love Disappointed,’ after Sir William Beechey, 1784.
C. D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Read, Samuel

​READ, SAMUEL (1815?–1883), water-colour painter, was born at Needham Market, Suffolk, about 1815. Being intended for the legal profession, he was placed in the office of the town clerk of Ipswich; but he developed so strong an inclination for art that he was transferred to that of an architect in the same town. In 1841 he went to London, and began to draw on wood under the guidance of Josiah W. Whymper. This led in 1844 to a connection with the ‘Illustrated London News’ which lasted for the rest of his life. In 1843 he sent to the exhibition of the Royal Academy a drawing of the ‘Vestibule of the Painted Hall, Greenwich,’ and continued to exhibit annually until 1857, when he was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours; he did not become a full member until 1880. His first contributions to its exhibitions were drawings of Milan Cathedral and of Rosslyn Chapel, and the total number of pictures exhibited by him amounted to 212. In 1853, just before the outbreak of the Crimean war, he went to Constantinople and the Black Sea to furnish sketches of the country for the ‘Illustrated London News,’ and was the first special artist ever sent abroad by an illustrated newspaper.
The subjects of the drawings which Read exhibited during the earlier years of his associateship were derived chiefly from Belgium, and especially from the churches of Antwerp. Others were the outcome of visits to France, Germany, and North Italy, as well as to places of historic interest in England and Scotland. In 1862 he visited Spain and ​Portugal, and sketches of picturesque bits of architecture from all these countries appeared in the ‘Illustrated London News’ under the title of ‘Leaves from a Sketchbook,’ some of which were republished in a volume in 1875. At a later period he ventured upon landscape painting, but his drawings of ‘Cape Wrath’ and ‘The Bass Rock,’ and other views of the wild cliff scenery of our extreme northern coasts and of Ireland, did not add to his reputation, which rests mainly upon his interiors of Gothic churches and cathedrals. Among the most noteworthy of his drawings for the ‘Illustrated London News’ were a series of views of the English cathedrals and some imaginative designs in illustration of ‘The Haunted House’ and other stories in the Christmas numbers.
Read married a daughter of Robert Carruthers [q. v.], the proprietor and editor of the ‘Inverness Courier,’ and during the later years of his life resided at Parkside, Bromley, Kent. He died of paralysis at Sidmouth, Devonshire, on 6 May 1883, aged 67. His remaining works were sold by Messrs. Christie, Manson, & Woods on 29 Feb. 1884. Three drawings by him—‘The Moated Grange,’ ‘The Corridor, Brewers' Hall, Antwerp,’ and ‘Toledo Cathedral’—are in the South Kensington Museum.
R. E. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Read, Nicholas

​READ, NICHOLAS (d. 1787), sculptor, was a pupil of Louis François Roubiliac [q. v.], whose extravagant style he imitated. He is said to have cut the skeleton figure of Death on the Nightingale monument in Westminster Abbey. On his master's death in 1762, Read succeeded to his studio at 65 St. Martin's Lane. In 1762 he gained a premium of a hundred guineas from the Society of Arts for a statue of Actæon with a hound; in 1763 he exhibited a medallion of Sir Isaac Newton. In 1764 he gained the society's first premium of 140 guineas for a marble statue of Diana. His monument to Rear-admiral Tyrrell (1766) in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey is one of the most tasteless groups of sculpture in the building (cf. Gent. Mag. 1818, i. 597 n.) In 1779 he sent to the exhibition of the Free Society of Artists a pretentious allegorical design for a monument to Chatham, whom he represented standing between Learning and Eloquence on a sarcophagus supported by History. He exhibited again in 1780, but towards the end of his life he lost his reason, which had been impaired for some years. He died at his house in St. Martin's Lane on 11 July 1787.
C. D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Read, William (1795?-1866)

​READ, WILLIAM (1795?–1866), Irish verse-writer, born in co. Down about 1795, became at an early age a contributor of poems to the first numbers of the ‘Literary Gazette,’ under the signature of ‘Eustace.’ The editor, William Jerdan [q. v.], formed a high opinion of him. In 1818 he published at Belfast a lament on the death of Princess Charlotte, and ‘The Hill of Caves and other Poems,’ which was well received. His next volume appeared anonymously in London in 1821, with the title of ‘Rouge et Noir, a Poem in Six Cantos, Versailles, and other Poems.’ The principal poem is a vigorous denunciation of gambling, and ‘Versailles’ has some excellent descriptive passages. The only other work by Read is ‘Sketches from Dover Castle, Julian and Francesca, Rouge et Noir, &c.,’ 1859. During his later years Read resided at Tullychin, co. Down, and was lieutenant-colonel commanding the North Down rifles. He died on 26 Dec. 1866.
D. J. O'D.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Read, William (d.1715)

​READ, Sir WILLIAM (d. 1715), empiric, was originally a tailor, and became progressively a mountebank and an itinerant quack. From 1687 to 1694 he boasted cures successively in Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, Oxford, Devonshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bath, and Windsor. In 1694 he was settled at York Buildings in the Strand, whence he issued the first of a series of charlatan advertisements, headed ‘Post nubila Phœbus: nihil absque Deo.’ Subsequently he advertised in the ‘Tatler’ that he had been thirty-five years in the practice of ‘couching cataracts, taking off all sorts of wens, curing wry necks and hair-lips [sic], without blemish.’ He is mentioned satirically in the ‘Spectator’ (No. 547), along with Roger Grant [q. v.], a rival oculist, John Moore, ‘the illustrious inventor of worm-powder,’ and ‘other eminent physicians.’ Read was knighted on 27 July 1705, ‘as a mark of royal favour for his great services, done in curing great numbers of seamen and soldiers of blindness gratis’ (Lond. Gazette, 30 July 1705). These benefits he advertised that he was ready to continue as long as the war lasted, and he extended the same to the poor Palatines upon their immigration. About the same time he became oculist in ordinary to Queen Anne. During this same year (1705) a poem entitled ‘The Oculist’ celebrated his skill and magnanimity in fulsome terms. In 1706 he published ‘A short but exact Account of all the Diseases incidental to the Eyes.’ The latter portion of the work is occupied with accounts of his cures and of his invention of ‘styptic water,’ which he proposed in many cases to substitute for the barbarous cauterisations in vogue. He claimed as specialities the treatment of cataract and the removal of cancers. Read's wealth enabled him to mix with the best literary society of his day, and on 11 April 1711 Swift wrote to Stella: ‘Henley would fain engage me to go with Steele, Rowe, &c., to an invitation at Sir William Read's; surely you have heard of him; he has been a mountebank, and is the queen's oculist. He makes admirable punch, and treats you in golden vessells.’ Read died at Rochester on 24 May 1715, and was buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas in that city. His widow, Lady Read, continued his business in Durham Yard in the Strand. A mezzotint portrait of the oculist, by W. Faithorne, is reproduced in Caulfield's ‘Portraits of Remarkable Persons;’ another portrait was engraved by M. Burghers.
[Noble's Biogr. Hist. ii. 231; Ashton's Social Life under Queen Anne, pp. 323–5; Jeaffreson's Book about Doctors, p. 58; Swift's Journal to Stella, 11 April 1711; Pope's Works, ed. Elwin and Courthorpe; Chambers's Book of Days; Evans's Cat. of Engraved Portraits; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
T. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Reade

​READE. [See also Read, Rede, Reed, Reede, and Reid.]
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chio
### chio

* 𢲵chio9566411
* To mix by stirring with the hand.

#### chio câu-câu;

    mix them evenly.

#### màiⁿ chio khah cōi cúi;

    do not mix in too much water.

#### cìeⁿ-seⁿ chio khṳ̀ khah kṳ̂t;

    that is mixed too stiff.

#### chio chieh cē;

    mix it thinner.

#### chio m̄ bûa;

    they will not mix by stirring.

#### chio cho̤h khng pn̄g khṳt koi cîah;

    stir up some food for the fowls.

#### chio cò̤ cêk ē;

    mix them together.
* 悄chío972617
* Retired ; quiet.

#### cĕⁿ chío-chío;

    without bustle.

#### i cêk pôiⁿ chío-chío khṳ̀ cò̤, bô̤ nâng cai;

    he went and performed his part unobtrusively, so that no one knew of it.

#### cêk koiⁿ thóiⁿ tîeh cò̤ ŏi cēⁿ chío-chío?

    Why is it that everything appears so quiet?
* 稍chío7461157
* Partially; tolerably.

#### chío hó̤;

    tolerably good.

#### chío ŏi;

    tolerably able.

#### chío ŭ m̄ hâh;

    it does not exactly match.

#### chío-chío cò̤ tit;

    it will barely do.

#### chío-chío;

    it will perhaps do.
* 誚chío9521497
* Ridicule.

#### ki-chío;

    to ridicule.

#### pùe-ău ki-chío i;

    jeered at him behind his back.
* 強chìo366578
* Relying on force, regardless of right; strong.

#### chìo hieⁿ khi-hŭ phûh hieⁿ;

    the powerful village imposes upon the weak one.

#### i tó̤ tíen chìo;

    they are making a display of their forces.
* 朝chîo32748
* A dynasty; the court; facing.

#### chîo lăi;

    holding office under government.

#### nín cí-kò̤ ŭ tī-tîang tŏ̤ chîo lăi cò̤ kuaⁿ?

    Who have you from this place that holds office under government?

#### chîo-kìⁿ;

    to see the Emperor.

#### cĭeⁿ chîo;

    to go to court.

#### cŏ̤ chîo;

    to give audience.

#### pńg chîo;

    our dynasty.

#### tăi cheng chîo;

    the Great Pure dynasty.

#### chîo hō̤;

    the banner of the dynasty.

#### chîo pâng;

    an audience chamber.

#### chîo hôk;

    court dress.

#### chîo kháu;

    the examination for conferring the Hanlin degree.

#### cíaⁿ-tŭn chîo-kang;

    reform and strengthen the government.

#### cêk chîo thien-cṳ́ cêk chîo chîn;

    each monarch has his own set of ministers.

#### saⁿ chîo ngŵn-láu;

    a high grandee of three reigns.

#### tang chîo it-pín;

    those of the first rank at court.

#### cŏ̤ lâm chîo pak;

    sit on the south side facing northward.

#### nŏ̤ nâng cŏ̤ sie chîo;

    the two sit facing each other.

#### chîo tùi i kâi mīn tàⁿ ūe;

    faced him and spoke to him.
* 𠹍chĭo11493010
* Sick at the stomach.

#### úa hṳ́ tói lí-lí chĭo khí lâi, sĭ àiⁿ thò kâi īeⁿ;

    I feel all the time as if I were about to vomit.

#### cí kâi cîah lío tó lăi lí-kẃn chĭo;

    since eating this my stomach is quite upset.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chit
### chit

* 七chit98711
* Seven.

#### chit-câp;

    seventy.

#### câp-chit;

    seventeen.

#### tŏiⁿ chit jît;

    on the seventh day.

#### chit tien poih táu;

    at sixes and sevens.

#### chit khá-tô;

    a Chinese puzzle of seven pieces.

#### cò̤ chit;

    to attend to the funeral rites of each seventh day till the forty-ninth day, after which the burial takes place.
* 拭chit768646
* To wipe with a dry cloth.

#### chit ta;

    wipe dry.

#### chit mâk-cap;

    wipe away tears.

#### chit tīo eng-têng;

    wipe off the dust.

#### chit phīⁿ;

    wipe the nose.

#### thau cîah m̄ cai chit chùi;

    purloin edibles and forget to wipe the mouth after eating them.

#### chit tīo nah-sap;

    wipe off the dirt.

#### khîeh mīn-pò lâi chit;

    get a towel and wipe it.
* 彳亍chît-chôk73
* The motion of walking.

#### chît-chôk-kìe;

    the clatter of feet.

#### chît-chît chôk-chôk kìe tùi cí-kò̤ kùe;

    went clattering past here.

#### màiⁿ kîaⁿ kàu chît-chôk-kìe;

    do not walk noisily.

#### chît-chît chôk-chôk;

    to scamper.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/choih
### choih

* 泣choih396855
* To weep silently, to sob, to catch the breath as in sobbing.

#### i choih mih sṳ̄?

    What is she crying about?

#### khàu kàu choih;

    wept so violently as to sob.

#### khàu hiah hŵn-lío tó̤ choih;

    after he had stopped crying he still continued to sob.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chiⁿ
### chiⁿ

* 鮮chiⁿ8001956
* Fresh; just killed; clean; new.

#### chiⁿ hṳ̂;

    fresh fish.

#### hṳ̂ chiⁿ kàu ûah;

    the fish is as fresh as if alive.

#### cí kò̤ nêk chiⁿ-chiⁿ nē;

    this flesh is from an animal that has just been killed.

#### hái chiⁿ;

    shell-fish just out of the sea.

#### cí kâi hṳ̂ kàu káu-sîaⁿ chiⁿ;

    this fish is nearly fresh.

#### mn̂g-khí kâi hṳ̂, àiⁿ ien li bŏi, àiⁿ chiⁿ li bô̤;

    this morning's fish is not spoiled, and neither is it quite fresh.

#### cêk sin hôk-sek chiⁿ căi;

    his garments are very new.

#### hue chiⁿ-chiⁿ;

    newly opened flowers.

#### kî-chì chiⁿ-mêng căi;

    the flags are quite new.

#### chiⁿ-īam;

    spick and span.

#### chiⁿ kàu īam-īam;

    glossy from newness.

#### chiⁿ kháu;

    deliciously fresh.

#### chiⁿ-tîam;

    fresh and sweet.

#### chiⁿ-nî căi;

    very youthful.

#### saⁿ-khò chiⁿ-khīa chiⁿ-khīa;

    his clothes are span new.
* 藍chíⁿ50214014
* Blue.

#### chíⁿ pò;

    plain blue cotton cloth.

#### sĭ àiⁿ làm chíⁿ, a sĭ àiⁿ ní chíⁿ?

    Do you want to have it colored blue by a single immersion in blue dye, or by repeated dippings and airings?

#### chíⁿ tĭu;

    blue grass-cloth.
* 庹chîⁿ912538
* To measure by the outstretched arms; one reach of the arms.

#### chîⁿ tîeh saⁿ chîⁿ tn̂g;

    measured it by the extended arms, and found it was three times as far as from the tip of one middle finger to the other.

#### cang chíu chîⁿ thóiⁿ ŭ kúi chîⁿ khuah;

    measure it with outstretched arms and see how many such spans wide it is.

#### ŭ chîⁿ gūa tn̂g cū kàu;

    a little more than the length covered by my extended arms will be sufficient.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/cho
### cho

* 粗cho10081195
* Coarse; rough.

#### cho ìuⁿ;

    coarse and fine.

#### cho lîap;

    coarse grains.

#### pò cho;

    the cloth is coarse.

#### lṳ́ sĭ bōi cho pò a sĭ bōi ìuⁿ pò?

    Do you sell coarse or fine cloth?

#### cho cîah;

    cho khau; coarse food.

#### mô̤ⁿ cho tîo;

    its hair is coarse.

#### cho-sôk nâng;

    a vulgar person.

#### cho-máng;

    rude; unpolished.

#### cho phûe;

    a coarse complexion.

#### cho kang-hu;

    rudely constructed.

#### cò̤ lâi khah cho;

    it is too roughly made.

#### cho-chò̤ ūe;

    coarse language.

#### cho cai tŏ̤-lí;

    partly understood doctrines.

#### cho sim;

    heedless.

#### cho sim, táⁿ tōa;

    rash and bold.

#### îam kùi îam o, bí kùi bí cho;

    when salt is dear it is black, and when rice is dear it is coarse.
* 腠chò9631309
* The flesh next the skin.

#### chò-lí;

    the fiber or brawn.

#### cí kâi pēⁿ tŏ̤ chò-lí, ío chíen;

    this disease is in the muscle, and is not deep-seated.

#### i kâi chò-lí cē khui cū kōi kám tîeh huang sîa;

    when the pores are open one is more easily affected by harmful winds.
* 醋chò10081648
* Vinegar; pickle.

#### cût-bí chò;

    vinegar made from glutinous rice.

#### kieⁿ chò;

    spiced pickle.

#### sng chò;

    sour pickle.

#### îeh chò;

    medicated vinegar.

#### hṳ̂-seⁿ chò;

    the pickle of mashed fish.

#### chò tîh;

    a pickle dish.

#### suah chò;

    season with vinegar.

#### tham chò;

    add ingredients to make more vinegar.

#### chò thē;

    the mother in vinegar.

#### chò koi;

    animalcules in vinegar.

#### cò̤ chò m sng;

    your vinegar has no sourness.

#### cíu chò kiaⁿ, mín khùaⁿ mīaⁿ;

    one who can make good vinegar, need not cast horoscopes to ascertain his luck.
* 湊chò963159
* A concurrence of circumstances; to gather.

#### chò khá; chò khío;

    a fortunate coincidence.

#### chò kàu sìo;

    just enough for the occasion.

#### chò-cîp cò̤ cêk ē;

    casually collected together.

#### chò ngŏ̤ úa lâi;

    just as I was coming.

#### chò m̄ kàu;

    happened to be insufficient.

#### chò sìo;

    happened to be enough.

#### khîeh lâi sie chò;

    bring it and put it in with the others.

#### chò tîeh úa m̄ ôiⁿ;

    it happened that I was not just then at leisure.

#### cí phàⁿ chò, m̄ phàⁿ tò;

    fear only a concurrence of circumstances other than what is expected.

#### chò côi;

    accidentally assembled.
* 愁chô963619
* Mournful; grieved.

#### chô bâi put tíen;

    lowering eyebrows.

#### iu-chô;

    sorrowful.

#### chô-būn;

    melancholy.

#### sio chô;

    assuage grief.

#### chô-îong múaⁿ mīⁿ;

    a rueful face.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/choi
### choi

* 米粉chòi590
* Rice flour.

#### ceng chòi;

    to make rice flour.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chioh
### chioh

* 眽chioh5841096
* To look around as in thought.

#### mn̄g tîeh, chioh-chioh-nih, tàⁿ bô̤ cêk kù chut;

    being inquired of, he kept rolling his eyes and winking, and could not think of a word to say.

#### khṳ̀ i kò̤ cē háⁿ tîeh, chioh-chioh-nih, cn̂g kâi bŏi tàⁿ;

    went to his house and berated him for it, and he had nothing to say, but just looked thoughtfully here and there.
# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/chip
### chip

* 輯chip9851599

#### chip-ìo;

    to bring together the most important; to arrange the best parts; an abridged form of an extensive work.

#### úa ŭ cêk pang chip-ìo;

    I have an abridged edition.
* 緝chip9881209
* To pursue; to search after.

#### chip ûak;

    pursue and seize.

#### chip sai;

    pursue smugglers.

#### chip-sai cûn;

    revenue-cutters.

#### chip-sai kẃn;

    a custom house.

#### chip tit tîeh, a chip m̄ tîeh?

    Did you get them or did you not?

#### chê-chip;

    on the search.

#### sûn chip;

    get on the trail.

#### mît-mît nē chip;

    secretly follow and watch.

#### chip châk;

    in pursuit of a thief.

#### chíaⁿ thek-chip;

    ask for a search warrant.

#### jîp thek-chip tîaⁿ;

    enter a complaint asking an investigation.

#### chip-lîah;

    the seizure.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wright, Laurence

​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 June 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.
B. P.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wright, John William

​WRIGHT, JOHN WILLIAM (1802–1848), watercolour-painter, son of John Wright (d. 1820), a miniature-painter of repute, was born in London in 1802. He was articled to Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) [q. v.], and from 1825 was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, chiefly of portraits. In 1831 he was elected an associate of the Watercolour Society, and in 1842 a full member; in 1844 he succeeded Robert Hills as secretary. Wright painted domestic and sentimental subjects in the pleasing but artificial style then popular, and his compositions were largely engraved in the ‘Keepsake,’ ‘Literary Souvenir,’ Heath's ‘Book of Beauty,’ ‘The Drawing-room Scrap Book,’ and ‘The Female Characters of Shakespeare.’ His portraits of Lord Tenterden, Bishop Gray, and Bishop Marsh were engraved for Fisher's ‘National Portrait Gallery.’ Wright died in London on 14 Jan. 1848 at his house in Great Marlborough Street, leaving a widow and two children.
F. M. O'D.