Douglas Wright (physiologist)

Sir Roy Douglas Wright AK (7 August 1907 – 28 February 1990) was an Australian physiologist and eminent academic administrator.

Wright married Julia Violet Bell, a nurse, on 24 September 1932 at Camperdown, Victoria; they subsequently divorced.

On 22 July 1964 he married Meriel Antoinette Winchester Wilmot, his secretary since 1941, in the registry office, Kensington, England.

[5] He was the brother of Sir Reg Wright, a long-serving Liberal Senator from Tasmania, who was also knighted, and who died only ten days later, on 10 March 1990.

[6] His eldest brother, John Forsyth Wright was a Member of the House of Assembly in the Parliament of Tasmania.