Waller Rodwell Wright

Waller Rodwell Wright (1775-1826) was a lawyer, prominent mason, and dabbler in literature, producing a thin volume of poems intitled Horae Ionicae: A Poem, Descriptive of the Ionian Islands (1809). He was born in Bury the same year as HCR, and later studied (he did not complete his degree) at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in London in 1800, and was appointed Recorded for Bury in 1801, a position he maintained until 1803, when he began his overseas work for the British Consul, first in Corfu, Zante, and the Ionian Islands, and later in Malta, where he died in 1826.