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Thomas Wright

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Thomas Wright, a wool comber, was tried at the Old Bailey for the crime of sodomy with Thomas Newton.

Thomas Wright was indicted for committing Buggery with Thomas Newton . Jan 10 1724- 5. Thomas Newton thus depos'd. Last January 12 Month, the Prisoner had the Carnal Use of my Body at his own House, in Christophers Alley in Moor-fields : He was a Wooll-Comber by Trade, but he sold a Dram among such Company as came to his House. - He afterwards remov'd to Beech Lane, and there kept Rooms for the entertainment of Sodomites.
from Old Bailey Online


Thomas Wright was hanged on 9 May 1726 at Tyburn (with William Griffin, and Grabriel Lawrence), who was also convicted of buggery with Thomas Newton.

External sites

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17260420-67-off317&div=t17260420-67#highlight