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Authorised form of nameSmith; Sir; William Wright (1875 - 1956)
Dates1875 - 1956
Date of birth02 February 1875
Date of death15/12/1956
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1932
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election22/03/1945
SourceObituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1957 vol 3 pp 193-202, plate, by J M Cowan
CodeNA411
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1945/18Smith, Sir William Wright: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/69/32Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Institution of Naval Architects, 5 Adelphi Terrace, W.C.216 December 1925
NLB/69/153Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Institution of Naval Architects, 5 Adelphi Terrace, W.C.221 January 1926
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