diff --git a/docs/gmock_cook_book.md b/docs/gmock_cook_book.md
index b41c5b98..9494f122 100644
--- a/docs/gmock_cook_book.md
+++ b/docs/gmock_cook_book.md
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ using ::testing::Lt;
 ```
 
 says that `Blah` will be called with arguments `x`, `y`, and `z` where `x < y <
-z`. Note that in this example, it wasn't necessary specify the positional
+z`. Note that in this example, it wasn't necessary to specify the positional
 matchers.
 
 As a convenience and example, gMock provides some matchers for 2-tuples,
diff --git a/googlemock/include/gmock/internal/gmock-internal-utils.h b/googlemock/include/gmock/internal/gmock-internal-utils.h
index 8ecfbf5a..2975fad9 100644
--- a/googlemock/include/gmock/internal/gmock-internal-utils.h
+++ b/googlemock/include/gmock/internal/gmock-internal-utils.h
@@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ template <typename Pointer>
 inline const typename Pointer::element_type* GetRawPointer(const Pointer& p) {
   return p.get();
 }
+// This overload version is for std::reference_wrapper, which does not work with
+// the overload above, as it does not have an `element_type`.
+template <typename Element>
+inline const Element* GetRawPointer(const std::reference_wrapper<Element>& r) {
+  return &r.get();
+}
+
 // This overloaded version is for the raw pointer case.
 template <typename Element>
 inline Element* GetRawPointer(Element* p) { return p; }
diff --git a/googlemock/test/gmock-internal-utils_test.cc b/googlemock/test/gmock-internal-utils_test.cc
index fbb6a83d..494b1fce 100644
--- a/googlemock/test/gmock-internal-utils_test.cc
+++ b/googlemock/test/gmock-internal-utils_test.cc
@@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ TEST(GetRawPointerTest, WorksForRawPointers) {
   EXPECT_EQ(&n, GetRawPointer(&n));
 }
 
+TEST(GetRawPointerTest, WorksForStdReferenceWrapper) {
+  int n = 1;
+  EXPECT_EQ(&n, GetRawPointer(std::ref(n)));
+  EXPECT_EQ(&n, GetRawPointer(std::cref(n)));
+}
+
 // Tests KindOf<T>.
 
 class Base {};