Brethertons Solicitors is one of the oldest firms of solicitors in Rugby and was founded by Count William Ferdinand Wratislaw in 1810, a Bohemian nobleman related to Good King Wenceslas.
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“such was the local enthusiasm that when Count Wratislaw returned from London, some of the townsmen went to meet him at Dunchurch, took the horses out of his carriage and drew him triumphantly into the Town.”
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Rugby was one of the first towns to be appointed a local health board (Croydon being the other), for which Wratislaw was on the board and received an overwhelming majority of votes.