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Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (8 April 1751 – 7 November 1831) was an English author and politician. Life. He was born in Queen Square, Bristol, the son of a Bristol merchant, Nathaniel Wraxall, and his wife Anne, great-niece of Sir James Thornhill, the painter.
Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (died 1831) Sir William Wraxall, 2nd Baronet (1791–1863) Sir (Frederic Charles) Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet (1828–1865) Sir Horatio Henry Wraxall, 4th Baronet (1832–1882) Sir Morville William Nathaniel Wraxall, 5th Baronet (1834–1898) Sir Morville William Wraxall, 6th Baronet ...
- 1813
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At Whitehall on 25 September 1813, upon the express nomination of the prince regent, Wraxall was created a baronet, as ‘of Wraxall, Somerset.’. Two years later were published his ‘Historical Memoirs,’ the first edition of which entertaining work was sold in the course of a month.
Wraxall: Pretitle: Sir: Forenames: Nathaniel William: Gender: Male: Date: 1751-1831: Biography: ODNB link for Wraxall, Sir Nathaniel William (1751-1831) 1st Baronet MP Traveller...
Sir Nathanial William Wraxall (1751–1831), traveller and writer, served as an MP from 1780 to 1794 and was made a baronet in 1813. Upon publication in 1815, his memoirs were an immediate, though controversial, success: 1,000 copies sold out within five weeks.
"Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall, 1st Baronet (8 April 1751 ? 7 November 1831) was an English author....He visited Portugal and was presented to the court, of which he gives a curious...
“Sir William began it with her,” wrote Nathaniel Wraxall, 1st Baronet, “and maintained the conflict, for such it might well be esteemed, during some minutes.” Tired out, the septuagenar-ian was succeeded by the Duke de Nöia, a Neapolitan aristocrat, “but he, too, though nearly forty years younger than Sir William, soon gave in from extenuation.”
