Canon Kenyon Edward Wright CBE (31 August 1932 – 11 January 2017) was a priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church and a political campaigner.
[2][3] He then studied for a further degree at Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge, where he was awarded a lower-second class in Part II of the theological tripos in 1955.
He had been a member of the Labour Party but let this lapse to be able to work as part of the cross-party Scottish Constitutional Convention.
The task of finding a consensus among the participating groups remained formidable, the Conservative Secretary of State for Scotland, Malcolm Rifkind, was reported as saying "if the disparate parties reached a common conclusion he would jump off the roof of the Scottish Office".
[8] Nevertheless, on St Andrew's Day 1990, the convention delivered its first report recommending a legislature elected by proportional representation financed by assigned revenues from taxes raised in Scotland.
At the first election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, he stood as an independent candidate in the West of Scotland region but was not successful.
[3] Wright was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours for services to constitutional reform and devolution in Scotland.