Michael Wright (diplomat)

Sir Michael Robert Wright, GCMG (3 December 1901 – 10 June 1976) was a British diplomat.

[1] He also served in places like the United States, Egypt and France.

[2] In July 1957, he and his wife, Ursula Long were held prisoner by Iraqi rebels at the British embassy in Baghdad.

[3] The son of the noted judge Sir Robert Samuel Wright, Michael Wright was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.

He entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1926.