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Robert Wright (1666[1] – 12 October 1739[2]) was an English judge and jurist. He was the son of Sir Robert Wright, Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1687–1689) who died in Newgate Prison following the Glorious Revolution. In the same year Robert was called to the bar at Middle Temple and became a judge. Robert took the role of Judge of the Common Pleas in the North East of England and married widowed land-heiress Alicea Pitt (née Johnson) (d.1723[3]), daughter of John Johnson of Sedgefield and settled in Sedgefield before returning to London following the Hanoverian succession in 1715.
Meanwhile, he fathered seven children with his mistress Isabella (1675[4] – 21 November 1752[4]) in Bloomsbury,[5] before sailing for colonial Charles Town to become Chief Justice of the colony of Carolina, and subsequently South Carolina, and a plantation owner. He died there in 1739. His son Sir James Wright went on to become a colonial governor of Georgia.
- ^ "Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900; : University of Cambridge : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming". Internet Archive. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
WRIGHT, ROBERT. Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 17) at CAIUS, June 4, 1683. S. of Sir Robert (1651), Serjeant-at-law, of Wangford, Suffolk. B. in London. School, Eton. Matric. 1683–4. Adm. at the Middle Temple, June 11, 1683. Called to the Bar, 1687. Chief Justice of South Carolina, 1730. Died before Oct. 1748. (Venn, I. 473.)
- ^ Salley, Alexander Samuel; Webber, Mabel L. (21 March 2012). Death Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette 1732-1775/Death Notices in the South Carolina Gazette, 1766-1774. Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 978-0-8063-4656-4.
On the Twelfth of last Month, died the Honourable Robert Wright Esq; late Chief Justice of this Province [...] (Saturday, November 24, 1739.)
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On Tuesday Morning the 21st Instant, died in the 78th Year of her Age, Mrs. Isabella Wright, Relict of the late Honourable Robert Wright, Esq; Chief Justice of this Province. (Monday, November 27, 1752)
- ^ Brooking, Robert G (2013). My Zeal for the Real Happiness of Both Great Britain and the Colonies: The Conflicting Imperial Career of Sir James Wright. Scholar Works at Georgia State University.