Arthur Robinson Wright, better known as A. R. Wright (1862 – 1932) was a British folklorist who was elected President of the Folklore Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
An influential presence in the Office, by 1905 he had carried out a revision of their entire classification scheme and oversaw the indexing of nearly 500,000 patents filed since the 1850s.
[3] Wright accumulated a considerable amount of material on British calendar customs (particularly those of England).
His uncompleted work on this topic was published after his death in three volumes as British Calendar Customs: England (ed.
[5] Wright himself, published articles on such contemporary topics as ‘vehicle mascots’[6] and twentieth century marriage customs.