Master Arthur Wright
(1858-1867)
10 July 1865

Volume 12, page 347, sitting number 16,536.

[The Silvy daybooks identify the sitter as 'Master A. Wright.' The sitter is identified more fully by a pencilled inscription verso in a modern hand, presumably a collector or dealer's transcription from an album page. His sister Edith also sat for Silvy on the same day.]

Born at Broughton in Lincolnshire on 24 February 1858, Arthur John de Schepden Wright was the son of Reverend Thomas Booth Wright, the Rector of Broughton in Lincolnshire, and his wife Henrietta Louisa née Luard.

The family appear on the 1861 census living at the rectory in Broughton. Arthur was the youngest of the Wright’s eight children (six daughters and two sons). The household also included a governess, ‘a monthly nurse’ and seven servants.

Arthur died, aged 9, at Broughton on 12 October 1867. The cause of death, according to his death certificate, was 'low fever.'

Reverend Thomas Booth Wright died at Broughton on 5 July 1884, leaving an estate valued at £54,364. According to his obituary in the Lincolnshire Chronicle (11 July 1884), ‘For nearly 40 years he was rector of the parish, and, by his kind and liberal disposition, won the love of every inhabitant, which was proved by the large number of parishioners and friends present at the funeral.’