Ronnie Selby Wright

Ronald William Vernon Selby Wright CVO TD JP FRSE FSAScot (12 June 1908, Glasgow – 24 October 1995, Edinburgh) was a Church of Scotland minister.

Before World War II he had been a Territorial Army Chaplain, but in 1939 he was mobilised as a padre with The Royal Scots regiment in France.

[5] In 1942 he was appointed Senior Chaplain to the 52nd (Lowland) Division of the British Army, serving in Italy, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

[1] Following the war, Ronald Selby Wright played a considerable role in renewing interest in liturgy in the Church of Scotland.

He also oversaw the renovation and restoration of Canongate Kirk, through the removal of unsympathetic Victorian accretions (such as the galleries and an overbearing organ in front of the pulpit.)

[8] Indeed, Tam Dalyell, writing Selby Wright's obituary in the Independent, suggests that his accession to Moderator of the General Assembly was delayed due to "the whisper, 'But are we sure Ronnie is not too fond of his boys?'

[4] He never married but one source claimed he had a platonic relationship with a nurse who fell in love with him, in spite of his being sexually attracted only to boys.