Edmund Wright (d. circa 1583) of Sutton Hall in the parish of Burnt Bradfield in Suffolk [1] and of Buckenham Tofts in Norfolk (belonging to his father-in-law), was a Member of Parliament for Steyning in Sussex in 1559. [2]
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. [3] [4] [5] 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. [6]
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. [7] Edmund Wright sold the wardship of his nephew William Spring (1532/4-1599) to Margaret Donnington (d.1562), [8] (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.