Charles Conrad Wright (February 9, 1917 – February 17, 2011) was an American religious historian and scholar of American Unitarianism and congregational polity.
He served on the faculty of Harvard Divinity School from 1954 to 1987 and continued to write for another decade.
[1] Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wright was the son of Charles Henry Conrad Wright, a professor of French at Harvard.
[2] His son, Conrad Edick Wright, is a historian of New England.
He attended Browne and Nichols School, then was graduated from Harvard College in 1937 before receiving an MA in 1942 and a PhD in 1946 from Harvard.