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| Francis (Frank) Whitworth Wright [CFT #8922] Born: 1882 Died: 1945-Sep-22 |
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| b 8 Park Road, Halifax, Yorkshire d Richmond Nursing Home Frank was baptised on 8 October 1882, at Park Chapel, Halifax; educated at Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge he was a mining engineer who owned the Bayton Colliery, Cleobury Mortimer (pre 1911 newspaper cutting: entertained 170 employés and their wives at the Wheatsheaf Inn; had first refusal of minerals from the Mawley Estate until 1915); of The Jailands, Abberley (tenant); of The Snead, Pensax, Worcestershire, 19..-1914; Lieut., RFC, 1914-18 War; of 821/826 Salisbury House, London Wall, London EC2; later of Holophone House, Elverton Street, Vincent Square, SW1; 19..-27, of ?19/47/49 Pembroke Square, London W6; 1927-32, of 25 Holland Villas Road, London W14; 1932-38, of 1 Addison Crescent, W14; from 1938, of Tideway, Lonsdale Road, Barnes London SW13 (later lived in by Priscilla, who sold house in 1951); his (oil) portrait, 23”x19”(59x49cms), painted by Glyn Philpot, 1909, is in the possession of his daughter Frances Bennett. Frank died on 22nd September 1945, in a Richmond nursing home; he was cremated and his name was added to Joyce’s gravestone. |
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