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Rh , served with the highest distinction during the war in the Peninsula, and fell in the attack upon New Orleans, where he was at the time Chief Engineer and Aide-de-Camp to Sir Edw. Pakenham.

This officer entered the Navy, 24 Feh. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, Capts. Robt. Dudley Oliver, Wm. Lukin, Jas. Katon, John Surman Carden, and Henry Raper. Under Capt. Oliver he aided, 28 July, 1806, in making prize, off the coast of France, after a chase of more than 150 miles, and in presence of three other heavy French frigates, of Le Rhin of 44 guns and 318 men; and under Capt. Lukin he contributed, 25 Sept. in the same year, to the capture off Rochefort, by a squadron under Sir Sam. Hood, of four more frigates, two of which, the Gloire 46 and Infatigable 44, surrendered to the. On the latter occasion he was struck by a splinter. In 1807 he accompanied, in the capacity of Midshipman, the expedition against Copenhagen; and on the fall of that city he aided in equipping and navigating to England the Fyen, one of the 74-gun ships there taken. During the passage he experienced a terrific gale, and was all but wrecked. When subsequently at Lisbon he was sent up the river Tagus in charge of an armed launch as far as Alhandra, for the purpose of cooperating with the British army, then occupying the lines of Torres Vedras. In Feb. 1813, after having again visited the Baltic, Mr. Wright, who for two years had held the rating of Master’s Mate, left the. In the ensuing spring he sailed with the Earl of Moira for India in the 74, Capt. Sir Home Popliam; and on his arrival he joined, as Admiralty-Midshipman, the  74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood. On hearing of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 6 July, 1814, he returned home, as First, in the sloop, Capt. Basil Hall. His last appointments were, 25 Sept. 1824, to the, Capt. Wm. King, at Falmouth; and 31 May, 1825, and 19 Oct. 1832, to the command of the and  packets. The latter vessel he quitted at the close of 1833.

Lieut. Wright married, 6 June, 1818, Miss Emily Mills Woodley, sister of (to whose memoir refer), and a relative of the Earl of Falmouth, by whom he has left issue four sons and three daughters. His eldest son, John Allen, is a Captain in the Hon.E.I.Co.’s service. – Messrs. Chard.

 WRIGHT. 

entered the Navy, 20 Oct. or Nov. 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board 38, Capt. Manley Dixon; with whom, after cruizing in the North Sea, he removed, in Feb. 1797, to the  64. On 15 July, 1798, we find him present in a brilliant action fought off Carthagena between the latter ship and four Spanish frigates of 42 guns each, which terminated in the surrender of one of the latter, the Santa Dorotea. In the course of the same year he was wounded while serving in a gunboat on the river Nile. In the early part of 1800 (he had previously attained the rating of Midshipman) he removed to the 74, a prize recently taken from the French, which he assisted, under Lord Cochrane, in navigating from Malta to  under circumstances of great difficulty. Continuing attached to the under the command of Capt. Jahleel Brenton and of his former Captain, Dixon, he was afforded an opportunity of further witnessing the capture of La Diane of 42 guns, and the surrender of the island of Malta. He removed subsequently with Capt. Dixon to the 74; and in Nov. 1801 (he had been then serving for a short time with Lord Keith in the  80) he returned to England in the  41), Capt. Chas. Ogle. He joined next, in 1802-3, the  36, Capt. Pearson, the  74, Capt. John Sutton, and the  74, bearing the flag of Lord Keith, on the Home station; where, in May, 1805, he assumed command, with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant, of the  mortar-boat. during the next 12 months he was actively employed, chiefly off Boulogne. He was nominated Sub-Lieutenant, 2 July, 1806, of the, Lieut-Commander Pettet, lying at Sheerness; was made full Lieutenant, 9 Aug. following, into the  74, Capt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge; left that ship (in which he had accompanied Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the expedition to the Dardanells) in June, 1807; and from 6 Sept. 1810 untd 31 Oct. 1813 filled an appointment in the Impress service at Limerick. He was placed upon the list of Retired Commanders 16 Jan. 1840.

 WRIGHT. 

entered the Navy, 4 May, 1807, as a Supernumerary, on board the sloop, stationed in the West Indies, where, after serving for rather more than three months, as Midshipman, in the, he joined, in Jan. 1808, the  sloop, Capts. Fras. Geo. Dickins and Colin Campbell. From the following Nov. until Dec. 1810 he was employed in the Baltic in the 64, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, Geo. Fred. Ryves, and John Bastard; he then removed to the 64, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson, Rich. Henry Muddle, Stewart, and Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, with whom he served for upwards of two years along the coast of Spain and in Cadiz Bay; he returned home with Capt. Bateman in the spring of 1813 in the 74; and he was afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 17 Feb. 1815, employed at Chatham and on the coast of Ireland, a great part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the, , and  frigates, Capts. Henry Prescott, Jas. Prevost, and Robt. Henderson. From June, 1844, until 1848, he had charge of the Semaphore station on Cooper’s Hill, Esher.

 WRIGHT. 

entered the Navy 12 Jan. 1808; passed his examination in 1814; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 May, 1825. He has since been on half-pay.

 WRIGHT. 

entered the Navy, 26 July, 1798, as A.B., on board of 48 guns and 371 men, Capt. Edw. Cooke; under whom we find him, on the night of 28 Feb. 1799, contributing to the capture, at the mouth of the Bengal river, of the French frigate La Forte of 52 guns and 370 men, after a dreadful action of two hours and a half, in which the enemy had 65 of their number, including the Captain, killed, and the British 5 killed and 17 (among whom was Capt. Cooke mortally) wounded. He removed, in Sept. 1799, as Midshipman (a rating he had before attained), tq the 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Peter Rainier, and continued (with the exception of an interval of a few months occasioned by the peace of Amiens) to serve in the East indies, until Sept. 1809, in the  bomb, Capt. Peter Heywood,  frigate, Capt. Wm. Waller, 74, Capts. John Butt and Lord Geo. Stuart, 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Rainier,  36, Capt. Peter Rainier,  sloop, Capt. Wm. Augustus Montagu, again, Capt. Henry Hart, and  64, Capt. Hon. Geo. Byng. He was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the and the  4 Aug. 1805 and 18 May, 1807; and on 11 Dec. in the latter year (the date of his first commission) he assisted, while yet in the, at the destruction, at Griessee, in the island of Java, of the dockyard, stores, and of all the men-of-war remaining to Holland in India. On leaving the he returned to England in the  18, Capt. Jas. John Gordon Bremer. He was employed afterwards with the late Sir Pulteney Malcolm in the and  74’s, and with Capts.