[2] Charles Henry Conrad Wright was born ten weeks after the death of his father.

After studying art in Paris, Marian Lois Wright returned in 1880 to the United States.

In 1884 mother and son returned to the United States and eventually settled in 1886 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where C. H. Conrad Wright attended Harvard University.

[3] Upon his graduation in 1891, he was offered a position as instructor in French, but he decided to enroll at Trinity College, Oxford University, and set sail again for England in July of that year.

He taught at Harvard for many years, finishing as Professor of French Language and Literature.