Robert Wright, Baron Wright

For other people named Robert Wright, see Robert Wright (disambiguation).
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The Right Honourable
The Lord Wright
GCMG PC FBA
Wright in 1925
Master of the Rolls
In office
7 October 1935 – 26 April 1937
Preceded byThe Lord Hanworth
Succeeded byThe Lord Greene
Personal details
BornRobert Alderson Wright
15 October 1869 (1869-10-15)
South Shields, County Durham
Died27 June 1964(1964-06-27) (aged 94)
Durley House, Burbage, Wiltshire
SpouseMarjory Avis Bullows (d. 1980)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
ProfessionBarrister, judge
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Robert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright, GCMG, PC, FBA (15 October 1869 – 27 June 1964) was a British judge. A commercial barrister, he was a Justice of the High Court from 1925 to 1932, when he was directly promoted to the House of Lords as a law lord. Robert Stevens described him as "one of the few significant British appeal judges of the twentieth century."

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