Robert Wright, Baron Wright

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Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright, GCMG, PC (15 October 1869 – 27 June 1964) was a British judge.

On 11 April 1932, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created additionally a life peer with the title Baron Wright, of Durley in the County of Wiltshire, however resgined as Lord of Appeal already in 1935. Wright became instead Master of the Rolls, a post he held until 1937, when he was made Lord of Appeal in Ordinary again. In 1947, he retired definitely.

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] External links

• Portraits of Robert Wright, Baron Wright at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Legal offices
Preceded by Sir Ernest Pollock	Master of the Rolls 1935–1937	Succeeded by Sir Wilfred Greene