Robert Samuel Wright

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Who is Robert Samuel Wright?

Sir Robert Samuel Wright, BCL, was a 19th-century Justice of the British High Court, Queen's Bench Division.

He wrote or co-wrote a number of books on legal matters and classic literature, which included:

The Genius of Chaucer: A Prize Essay -

The golden treasury of ancient Greek poetry

The law of criminal conspiracies and agreements

An essay on possession in the common law

The 1895 and 1903 editions of Kelly's Directory show that Wright was living then at Headley Park on the border of Woolmer Forest, near Bordon, Hampshire in a mansion which was erected by him in 1894. This date may be mistaken, or there may have been an earlier home on the site, for papers held at Balliol College show that Benjamin Jowett was staying with Wright at Headley Park on 6 Jan 1892 and 7 Jan 1893 when he corresponded from that address.

Mr Wright initially declined a knighthood with the motivation that he was at the time unmarried and a judge takes precedence over a Knight Bachelor. Upon marrying he accepted the knighthood.

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