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.