Henry Smith Wright

Henry Smith Wright (27 June 1839 – 19 March 1910) was an English barrister, banker and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.

He was a scholar in 1861[1] and also that year rowed in the winning First Trinity Boat Club coxed four which won the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.

[3] He translated the Iliad, I-IV into English hexameters,[4] and the Aeneid, I-VI into blank verse.

[6] Wright lived at Mapperley Hall, Nottinghamshire[7] and died at the age of 70.

John Adolphus Wright, rector of Ickham, Kent, and had four sons and one daughter.