Wright was the son of the Rev. Alban Henry Wright, organising secretary of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He was educated at
St Edmund's School, Canterbury and
St John's College, Oxford. He entered the Colonial Civil Service in 1912 and was posted to Fiji as a cadet the same year. In 1915, he was promoted to District Commissioner. During the
First World War, he was commissioned into the
Rifle Brigade as a
second lieutenant in 1917. After the war, he became Provincial Commissioner in Fiji in 1922, Assistant Colonial Secretary in 1928, Secretary for Native Affairs in 1932, Acting Colonial Secretary in 1932–34, and Acting
Governor of Fiji in 1935. In 1936, he was transferred to the Caribbean and was Administrator of St Vincent, serving there until 1938, when he was appointed Administrator of St Lucia. He was Acting
Governor of the Windward Islands in 1938 and 1939. He retired from the Colonial Service in 1943. After his retirement, he was managing director of the Jamaica Starch and Milling Co. Ltd from 1944 to 1946. He died in
Ascot in 1967. Wright was appointed a
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1937. == Family ==