Wright, Thomas, London, upholder (1770–78). Son of Gascoigne Wright of Kirby, Lincoln, Clerk. App. to William Chesson of London, freeman and haberdasher. Free of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude, 3 October 1770 and set up business in Fenchurch St, the number being 157 in 1778. The business was not successful and in Gents Mag., June 1778 his bankruptcy was announced. It was in this year that he moved to Cannon St. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records]