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English painter

Henry Wright
In The Sketch, 18 December 1895
BornHenry Charles Seppings Wright
(1849-01-00)January 1849
Stithians, Cornwall, England
Died7 February 1937(1937-02-07) (aged 88)
Bosham, West Sussex, England
Occupation(s)Artist, writer
Spouses
Marie Eliza Willows ​(m. 1884)​
Charlotte Yellowley Loftus Brock ​ ​(m. 1927)​

Henry Charles Seppings Wright (1849–1937) was an English artist, illustrator, war correspondent, and author.

Life

"South Africa Committee" by "Stuff",
in Vanity Fair, 1897

Born in January 1849 at Stithians, Redruth, Cornwall, Wright was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Francis Hill Arbuthnot Wright. In 1881, Wright, aged 32, was a painter and was living with his parents at Pendleton. His father was then Vicar of St Paul's, Paddington.

Wright contributed caricatures to Vanity Fair under the pseudonym "Stuff" and also worked for the Illustrated London News. He served as a war correspondent in Tripoli and with Tōgō's navy and wrote books about his experiences overseas, which he illustrated.

Wright participated in the looting of Benin City during the British Benin Expedition of 1897.

Personal life

In 1884, Wright married Marie Eliza Willows in Croydon.

At the census of 1901, Wright was living at Roxborough Park, Harrow on the Hill, with his wife, Marie Seppings Wright, and children Frank, 15, Nellie, 14, and Stamford, 7. He gave his occupation as War Correspondent and the family had a cook and housemaid.

On 6 October 1927, Wright married secondly Charlotte Yellowley Loftus Brock at the Church of St Barnabas, Pimlico.

He died at his home in Bosham on 7 February 1937.

Selected publications

  • With Togo: The Story of Seven Months' Active Service Under His Command (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905)
  • Two Years Under the Crescent (1913; reprinted by Palala Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1347251775)

Notes

  1. Wright Henry Charles Seppings 1849-1937 at artbiogs.co.uk, accessed 9 November 2020; England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915: Birth, Baptism & Christening at ancestry.com, accessed 9 November 2020: "Name Henry Charles Seppings Wright, Birth 01/1849 (Jan 1849) Cornwall Redruth" (subscription required)
  2. ^ Marriages Solemnized at St Barnabas Church, Pimlico, No. 40 (Oct. 6th 1927) at ancestry.com, accessed 9 November 2020
  3. 1881 United Kingdom census, Leaf Square, Pendleton, ancestry.co.uk, (subscription required)
  4. "Wright, Henry Charles Seppings", in Mitchel P. Roth, James Stuart Olson, Historical Dictionary of War Journalism (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997), pp. 352–353
  5. Hicks, Dan (2020). The Brutish museums : the Benin bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution. Pluto Press. pp. 161–2. ISBN 978-0-7453-4176-7. OCLC 1220877111.
  6. "Wright Henry Charles S / Croydon 2a 439", "Willows Marie Eliza / Croydon 2a 439", in General Index to Marriages in England and Wales (1884), ancestry.co.uk (subscription required)
  7. 1901 United Kingdom census, Harrow on the Hill, Roxboro' Park ancestry.co.uk (subscription required)
  8. "Mr. H. C. Seppings Wright". The Guardian. 8 February 1937. p. 14. Retrieved 5 September 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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