Whitaker Wright
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James Whitaker Wright was a company promoter and swindler, who committed suicide at the Royal Courts of Justice in London immediately following his conviction for fraud.
Drawing of Whitaker Wright, 1904
Share of the London & Globe Finance Corp. Ltd., issued 14 February 1901
Grave of Whitaker Wright at All Saints' Church, Witley
Witley Park
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Witley Park, formerly known as Lea Park, is an estate dating from the late 19th century between Godalming and Haslemere in Surrey, England. Its landscaped grounds include three artificial lakes, one o
Whitaker Wright
…investors. Wright also sought to make a place for himself in late Victorian English Society, buying the Lea Park estate in Surrey, which he renamed Witley Park, and building a large mansion. Wright also owned the yacht Sybarita which beat the yacht Meteor (which belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany) before…
Witley Park from the west: The mansion built in the mid-2000s is centre right and the body of water nearest the camera is Thursley Lake.
Statue of Neptune in Thursley Lake
Brook Lodge