C. Kent Wright

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:
Family correspondence and notes of meetings with doctors relating to the recurring mental illness of C. Kent Wright (1896-1969), solicitor and town clerk, and to its impact on his family, following his mental breakdown in 1952, and later senile dementia. His treatments at a range of institutions included ECT and lithium. There may be Data Protection issues affecting access.

c. 1950s-1960s

2 Transfer Boxes

Given to the library at Wellcome Collection by Martin Wright (C. Kent Wright's son) in June 2007 and February 2008.

C. Kent Wright (1896-1969) was a solicitor and town clerk. In 1915 he won a scholarship to Oxford, where he had a breakdown. After graduation he qualified as a lawyer. He married in 1929 and had two children born 1930 and 1944. He also published a number of books, including ABC of Local Government and several anthologies. In 1952 he had a breakdown and subsequently was in several clinics and hospitals, including St Andrews Northampton, Hellingly in Sussex, and Middlewood in Sheffield, where he died, suffering from senile dementia.

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