C. S. Wright

[1] Undaunted, he walked from Cambridge to London, where he applied in person; this time, Scott accepted, and Wright was hired as expedition glaciologist and assistant physicist.

On 1 November 1911, Wright was a member of the Southern Party team that set off from their base camp at Cape Evans with the intention of reaching the South Pole.

After a distinguished career in the First World War, during which he helped develop trench wireless and gained the Military Cross and the Order of the British Empire (OBE), he joined the Admiralty Research Department in 1919.

He then went to the United States as scientific advisor to the Admiral at the British Joint Services Mission, Washington, D.C., and in 1951 became director of the Marine Physical Laboratory of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, California.

Wright was portrayed by Dennis Vance in the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, and by Canadian actor Paul Rothery in the 1985 television serial The Last Place on Earth.