Christian Guthrie Wright

Christian Edington Guthrie Wright (19 April 1844 – 24 February 1907) was a Scottish campaigner for women's higher education, co-founder of the Edinburgh School of Cookery which was the forerunner to Queen Margaret University.

[2] Guthrie Wright presented a paper at the Domestic Economy Congress in Birmingham, 1877, organized by the Royal Society of Arts.

[6] In 1887 she was involved in creating and funding the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses, an early training program focused on home care.

[2] Ethel Maud De la Cour, was promoted to Principal of the cookery school which went on to define Domestic Science teaching for Scotland.

[10] One of Christian Guthrie Wright's cottages in the Colinton suburb of Edinburgh, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1896,[11] still stands on Pentland Avenue, and is a point of interest on the walking tour of the parish.