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Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (9 March 1836, Dublin – 22 March 1909) was an Irish Anglican clergyman.

Biography

Wright was the second son of barrister Edward Wright and his wife Charlotte. His older brother was Edward Percival Wright. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1857. He was Bampton lecturer at Oxford in 1878, Donnellan lecturer at Dublin 1880, Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford 1893–97, and vicar of Saint John's, Liverpool, 1891–98, examiner in Hebrew at the University of London 1897–99, at the University of Wales 1897–1901, and clerical superintendent of the Protestant Reformation Society in 1898–1907.

Family

He was married to Ebba (née Almroth). They had five sons: Sir Almroth Wright, a noted bacteriologist and immunologist; Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, a noted librarian; Eric Blackwood Wright (1 May 1860 – 10 April 1940), Chief Justice of the Seychelles; Major-General Henry Brooke Hagstromer Wright (1864–1948); Rev. Ernest Alexanderson Wright (1865–1926 or 1931).