Robert Patrick Wright

He was born on 12 February 1857 the son of Robert Wright, a tenant farmer of Downan Farm near Ballantrae in Ayrshire, one of eight siblings.

He was educated at Ayr Academy, then undertook formal training at the University of Edinburgh under Prof John Wilson.

His proposers were Andrew Peebles Aitken, John Gray McKendrick, Magnus Maclean and William Jack.

[3] He became Sir Robert Patrick Wright when knighted by King George V on 6 July 1911 at St James's Palace, London (the honour took effect from 20 June 1911).

Their first son, William James Wright (b.1903, d.1994), was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1955 New Year Honours.