Henry FitzHerbert Wright

Henry FitzHerbert Wright

Captain Henry FitzHerbert Wright (9 October 1870 – 23 February 1947) was a lawyer and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1895. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Leominster constituency at an unopposed by-election in 1912, following the retirement of the incumbent. He held the seat until the general election of 1918.

He served in the Royal Field Artillery from 1908 to 1911 and 1914 to 1917. He served in Derbyshire as a Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff, county alderman and vice chair of the County Council. He was also a governor of Repton School and chairman of the River Trent Catchment Board. He died at his home near Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

He is the maternal great-grandfather of Sarah, Duchess of York, through her mother Susan Barrantes.

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