Robert Patrick Wright
Sir Robert Patrick Wright JP FRSE FRAS (1857–1938) was a Scottish farmer and agriculturalist. He was Chairman of the Scottish Board of Agriculture.
Life
He was born on 12 February 1857 the son of Robert Wright, a tenant farmer of Downan Farm near Ballantrae in Ayrshire. He was educated at Ayr Academy, then undertook formal training at Edinburgh University under Prof John Wilson. He took up farming himself but abandoned it due to his views on land tenure, and instead focussed on Scottish land reforms and improvements for tenant farmers.[1]
He became Professor of Agriculture at the West of Scotland Technical College around 1890. In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Andrew Peebles Aitken, John Gray McKendrick, Magnus Maclean and William Jack.[2]
In 1910 he was living at "Maraval", a villa in Uddingston.[3]
He died at North Berwick on 19 December 1938. He is buried with his parents at Ballantrae.[4]
Publications
- Principles of Agriculture
- The Book of the Farm
- The Standard Cyclopaedia of Modern Agriculture
Family
In 1902 he married Marion Miller.
References
- ^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0370164600012499
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
- ^ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1910
- ^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193871147/sir_robert-patrick-wright