In Popular Culture
Whitaker Wright was popularized along with his fictional great-grandson in a 2006 episode of Hustle titled Ties That Bind Us.
H. G. Wells was fascinated by the fall of Wright, and it influenced the writer's novels Tono-Bungay and The World of William Clissold.
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