BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF JOHN WESLEY WRIGHT, ESQ. CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY

Summary

AT the commencement of our memoir of the late Captain Wright, we expressed our regret at the non-arrival of any answer from that branch of his family to whom we had addressed our biographical queries, which rendered the account of Captain Wright's early life and services more brief and conjectural than we are accustomed to proceed on–but the time was peculiarly favorable to our notice of him–and as we then, by implication, drew on the indulgence of our readers for the consequent imperfection of that part of our memoir, we now entreat the like favour for the following extra ordinem supplement, with its corrections.

Captain John Wesley Wright was born on the 14th of June, 1769, at Cork, in Ireland, as we have before related; his father being descended from an ancient and respectable family in Lancashire, and his mother, of Hampton Court, Middlesex. His father's professional duties having called him to the island of Minorca, he was there, under the eye of his parents, carefully instructed by the best masters in music, French, and drawing, in the two former of which studies he particularly excelled, and from which, in his subsequent captivity, he derived most essential benefit.