The Honourable Mrs Richard Wrightson
(1803-1875)
24 January 1862

Volume 5, page 336, sitting number 6840.

Born in Chelsea on 26 June 1803, Elizabeth Augusta de Grey was the daughter of Thomas de Grey and Elizabeth née North. On 27 April 1831 her father succeeded his older brother, becoming the 4th Baron Walsingham of Walsingham in Norfolk. As the daughter of a baron, Elizabeth was henceforward accorded the courtesy style of ‘The Honourable’ before her name.

On 13 August 1832 at Merton in Norfolk she married Richard Herbert Wrightson, third son of William Wrightson of Cusworth Hall in Yorkshire who at one time was the Member of Parliament for Aylesbury. Their marriage produced no children.

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at Warmsworth Hall in Yorkshire. Also present on the night of the census were nine servants, including a butler, with at least six more living nearby in the village, including a cook, a coachman and two gardeners.

The Honourable Mrs Wrightson died, aged 71, on 22 February 1875 at her London residence, 22 Upper Brook Street in Mayfair. Her estate was valued at £16,000.

In 1877 at St Mary’s in Bryanston Square her widower married secondly Albinia Thomas, daughter of Inigo Thomas of Ratton in Sussex. When he died in 1891 his estate was valued at £115,095.