Edmund Wright (d. circa 1583) of Sutton Hall in the parish of Burnt Bradfield in SuffolkHoward, Joseph Jackson, ed. (1868). The Visitation of Suffolke, made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with additions from family documents, original wills, Jermyn, Davy, and other MSS, &c.: Vol 2. Lowestoft & London, p.289; confirmed existence of manor of Sutton Hall within the parish of Burnt Bradfield see and of Buckenham Tofts in Norfolk (belonging to his father-in-law), was a Member of Parliament for Steyning in Sussex in 1559.Fuidge
He was the second son and eventual heir of Robert Wright of Sutton by his wife Anne Russell, who had inherited a moiety of Sutton Hall from her mother Jane Jervace (or Gervas) (wife of Thomas Russell), daughter and heiress of John Jervace of Sutton.FuidgeRye, Walter, ed. (1891) The visitacion (i.e., visitation) of Norfolk, made and taken by William Hervey, Clarencieux King of Arms, anno 1563, p. 323, "Wright"p. 323New England Historical and Genealogical Register., Vol. 156 (2002), p. 54, note 231. The arms of Wright were: Sable, a chevron engrailed between three fleurs-de-lys or on a chief of the last three spear heads azure.Howard (1868), Heraldic Visit Suffolk 1561, p.289
Edmund Wright by his wife Frances Spring, a daughter of the prominent clothier Sir John Spring (d.1547) of Lavenham in Suffolk, left daughters and co-heiresses, one of whom was Anne Wright, heiress of Sutton Hall and of Barrett's Hall in Whatfield, who married Sir John Heigham of Barrough Hall.Howard (1868), Heraldic Visit Suffolk 1561, p.289 Edmund Wright sold the wardship of his nephew William Spring (1532/4-1599) to Margaret Donnington (d.1562),Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, ed.1866, vol.1, p.191 (Countess of Bath, wife of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499-1560/61) of Tawstock in Devon), a strong-willed lady who was ambitious for her own daughters and who later married him off to one of them, namely Anne Kitson, from her previous marriage.
Sources Fuidge, N.M., biography of "WRIGHT, Edmund (d.c.1583), of Burnt Bradfield and Sutton, Suff. and Little Buckenham, Norf.", published in History of Parliament, House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
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