Authorised form of name | Wright; Sir; Almroth Edward (1861 - 1947); medical scientist |
Dates | 1861 - 1947 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Middleton Tyas, near Richmond, Yorkshire, England |
Date of birth | 10 August 1861 |
Place of death | His home, Southernwood, Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England |
Date of death | 30/04/1947 |
Occupation | medical scientist |
Research field | Bacteriology |
Immunology |
Medicine |
Activity | Education: Privately educated at home; Royal Academical Institution, Belfast; Trinity College, Dublin MD (Dubl) Career: Demonstrator of pathology at Cambridge (1887); moved to Sydney, Australia, returning to England to work in a newly opened conjoint laboratories of the two royal colleges; professor of pathology at the army medical school at Netley, Hampshire (1892-1902); served on the Indian plague commission (1898–9); left the army medical school and took up the appointment of pathologist at St Mary's Hospital, London (1902); travelled to South Africa to study pneumonia among the African workers in the Rand goldmines (1911); on his return he devoted his time to full-time research; appointed director of the bacteriological department of the newly founded Medical Research Committee (later Council) (1913) but was prevented from taking it up due to the outbreak of the First World War; went to France as a temporary colonel in the Army Medical Service setting up a laboratory in the casino at Boulogne (1914); returned to St Mary’s focusing on problems of immunisation, specifically the changes induced in the blood response to vaccination by bacterial products (1918-1943). Honours: Kt 1906; CB 1915; KBE 1919 Awards/Medals: Leconte prize 1915 First gold medal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1920 |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 03/05/1906 |
Age at election | 45 |
Proposer | Augustus Desire Waller; Walter Holbrook Gaskell; Leonard Erskine Hill; William Osler; Charles Scott Sherrington; Patrick Manson; Edward Waymouth Reid; Victor Horsley |
RSActivity | Medals and prizes: Buchanan Medal 1917 |
Relationships | Parents: Revd Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (1836–1909), an eminent Hebraist and militant protestant, and Ebba Johanna Dorothea, daughter of Nils Wilhelm Almroth, governor of the royal mint, Stockholm. Brother: Sir Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, librarian to the London Library. Spouse: Jane Georgina Wilson (d. 1926), daughter of Robert Mackay Wilson JP, of Coolcarrigan, co. Kildare (1889). Children: Edward Robert Mackay Wright (1890-1913); Leonard Almoth Wilson Wright (1891-1972); Doris Helena MacNaughton Wright (1894-1990). |
PublishedWorks | RCN 21149 RCN 21888 RCN 16359 |
OtherInfo | Known for vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines. Remembered for his strong opposition to women's suffrage, opining that women's brains are incapable of understanding social and public issues. His strong views were used as the model for the character Sir Colenso Ridgeon in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma. |
Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1948-1949 vol 6 pp 297-314, plate, by L Colebrook |
Code | NA1246 |
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1906/16 | Wright, Sir Almroth Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
IM/005016 | Wright, Sir Almroth Edward | nd |
RR/15/136 | Referee's report by Charles Scott Sherrington, on a paper 'The influence of lymph on blood coagulability' by Almroth Edward Wright | 21 November 1900 |
RR/15/410 | Referee's report by Edward Emanuel Klein, on a paper 'On the measurement of the bactericidal power of small samples of blood under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, and on the comparative bactericidal effect of human blood drawn off and tested under these contrasted conditions' by Almroth Edward Wright and F N Windsor | June 1902 |
RR/15/409 | Referee's report by Sidney Harris Cox Martin, on a paper 'On the measurement of the bactericidal power of small samples of blood under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, and on the comparative bactericidal effect of human blood drawn off and tested under these contrasted conditions' by Almroth Edward Wright and F N Windsor | June 1902 |
RR/15/318 | Referee's report by Sidney Harris Cox Martin, on a paper 'The measurement of the bactericidal power of small samples of blood under aerobic and anaerobic condition, & on the results of certain investigations carried out by the procedures described' by Almroth Edward Wright and Captain Windsor | 15 May 1902 |
MC/19/867 | Letter from [Almroth Edward] Wright, 7 Lower Seymour Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 30 April 1904 |
NLB/23/2/233 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Almroth Edward Wright, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 15 July 1902 |
NLB/25/57 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor A E Wright, to the Army Medical School, Netley | 1 August 1902 |
NLB/25/604 | Copy telegram from an unknown correspondent, to Almroth Edward Wright, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | [25 November 1902] |
NLB/25/453 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Almroth Edward Wright, Army Medical School, Netley | 7 November 1902 |
NLB/29/229 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Almroth Edward Wright, [Fellow of the Royal Society], and Captain S R Douglas | 11 August 1904 |
NLB/29/230 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Almroth Edward Wright, [Fellow of the Royal Society], and Captain S R Douglas | 11 August 1904 |
NLB/36/575 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 9 November 1907 |
NLB/31/837 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr [Almroth Edward] Wright, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 23 November 1905 |
NLB/33/1 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Almroth Edward Wright, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 June 1906 |
NLB/31/916 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Almroth Edward Wright, 7 Lower Seymour Street, W. | 8 December 1905 |
NLB/32/747 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | [19 May 1906] |
NLB/32/803 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Almroth Edward Wright, Fellow of the Royal Society, 7 Lower Seymour Street, W. | 28 May 1906 |
NLB/37/234 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir A [Almroth] E [Edward] Wright FRS | 18 February 1908 |
NLB/37/241 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons | 19 February 1908 |
NLB/37/294 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Sir A E Wright, MD, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 February 1908 |
NLB/37/613 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sidney Harris Cox] Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physiology Sectional Committee. | 13 April 1908 |
NLB/37/227 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons | 18 February 1908 |
NLB/41/255 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Almroth Edward Wright, Fellow of the Royal Society | 10 November 1909 |
NLB/40/690 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir A [Almroth] E [Edward] Wright FRS | 19 July 1909 |
NLB/42/490 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Almroth Wright FRS | 21 June 1910 |
NLB/42/437 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Almroth Wright FRS | 13 June 1910 |
MC/19/864 | Letter from [Almroth Edward] Wright, 7 Lower Seymour Street, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 23 January 1904 |
NLB/51/110 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Sir Almroth Wright FRS, 39 Boulevard Daunon, Boulogne, France | 11 December 1914 |
NLB/63/104 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir [Edward] Almroth Wright, FRS | 29 June 1922 |
NLB/52/510 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth Edward Wright, FRS; 39 Boulevard Dannon, Boulogne | 4 January 1916 |
NLB/54/906 | Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth [Edward] Wright, FRS | 1 November 1917 |
NLB/55/106 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth [Edward] Wright, FRS | 05 December 1917 |
RR/40/122 | Referee's report by William Bate Hardy, on a paper 'Further studies on intertraction' by Almroth Edward Wright | June 1929 |
NLB/60/400 | Copy letter from [Alfred Hastings] White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth [Edward] Wright, FRS | 28 January 1921 |
NLB/60/150 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth [Edward] Wright, FRS | 15 December 1920 |
RR/40/123 | Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'Further studies on intertraction' by Almroth Edward Wright | August 1929 |
NLB/60/326 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth [Edward] Wright, FRS | 20 January 1921 |
NLB/60/291 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth [Edward] Wright, FRS | 13 January 1921 |
RR/17/290 | Referee's report by Almroth Edward Wright, on a paper 'Variations in the phagocytic power of leucocytes from different individuals' by E Glynn and Warrington Yorke | April 1908 |
NLB/65/597 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John [Rose] Bradford, FRS | 26 November 1923 |
NLB/70/272 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth Wright, KBE, FRS | 21 February 1927 |
NLB/69/939 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth [Edward] Wright, K.B.E., FRS | 20 November 1926 |
NLB/72/276 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Almroth Wright, KBE, CB | 16 June 1929 |
NLB/19/518 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Almroth Edward Wright, Fellow of the Royal Society], Army Medical School, Netley, Southampton | 23 October 1899 |
NLB/28/154 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Almroth Edward Wright | 20 January 1904 |
NLB/32/748 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Almroth Edward Wright, Fellow of the Royal Society, 7 Lower Seymour Street, W. | 21 May 1906 |
EC/1906/15 | Wright, Sir Almroth Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/31/830 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Almroth Edward Wright, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 21 November 1905 |
NLB/54/909 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Deputy Master of the [Royal] Mint | 2 November 1917 |
NLB/69/602 | Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans], Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [John Charles Grant] Ledingham, FRS | 17 June 1926 |
RR/15/135 | Referee's report by William Dobinson Halliburton, on a paper 'The influence of lymph on blood coagulability' by Almroth Edward Wright | February 1900 |
RR/36/98 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'A further contribution to the study the phenomena of intertraction' by Almroth Edward Wright | [February 1927] |
PP/20/33 | Paper, 'On the leucocytes of peptone and other varieties of liquid extravascular blood' by Almroth Edward Wright | 1893 |
PP/23/19 | Paper, 'On the influence of carbonic acid and oxygen upon the coagulability of the blood in vivo' by Almroth Edward Wright | 1894 |
MC/19/865 | Letter from [Almroth Edward] Wright, 7 Lower Seymour Street, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 25 April 1904 |
MC/19/866 | 'Methods of blood examination for clinical and research purposes' by [Almroth Edward] Wright | [1904] |
MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |