William Wright (footballer)

William P. Wright (born 1900 in Seaforth, Liverpool, Merseyside) was a professional footballer, who played for Exeter City and Huddersfield Town.

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William Wright (orientalist)

Prof William Wright LLD (17 January 1830 – 22 May 1889) was a famous British Orientalist, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Many of his works on Syriac literature are still in print and of considerable scholarly value, especially the catalogues of the holdings of the British Library and Cambridge University Library. A Grammar of The Arabic Language, often simply known as Wright's Grammar, continues to be a popular book with students of Arabic. Wright is also remembered for the Short history of Syriac literature.

Life

Wright was educated at St Andrew's University, Halle and Leiden. He was Professor of Arabic at University College London from 1855 to 1856, and Professor of Arabic at Trinity College, Dublin from 1856 to 1861. From 1861 to 1869 he was an Assistant in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and from 1869 to 1870 Assistant Keeper at the museum. In 1870 he was appointed Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University, and he held the chair there until his death in 1889.

William Wright (Australian politician)

William Henry Wright (1816 – 1 February 1877) was a British Army officer and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.

Early life

Wright was born in Sandhurst, Berkshire, England, to Colonel Charles Wright and Harriet, née Frere. In 1833, after officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Wright served with the 50th Regiment in New Zealand and on Norfolk Island.

Career in Australia

He sold his army commission in 1838 and trained as a surveyor in New South Wales. He joined the New South Wales Survey Department under Major Thomas Mitchell on 27 July 1838. Wright became commissioner of crown lands for the Wellington District on 13 June 1843, and then, in late 1846, for the Wimmera. He was appointed chief commissioner of the goldfields on 1 May 1852 by Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe.

Wright appointed as a member of the Victorian Legislative Council on 29 August 1853 and held that position until the original Council was abolished in March 1856. Wright was later appointed a police magistrate in the Jamieson district. This position he retained until he was appointed secretary for railways on 29 July 1862. Wright acted in this latter capacity for a number of years, giving general satisfaction to the successive responsible heads of the department, and proving himself an efficient public officer. When the previous sheriff of Victoria, Claud Farie, died in 1871, Wright, by his own request, was appointed to the position, which he continued to hold up to the time of his death.