Robert Wright (surgeon)

Sir Robert Brash Wright was a senior British surgeon, born on 1 March 1915 and dead on 4 December 1981. He was educated at Hamilton Academy and graduated MB ChB from the University of Glasgow in 1937. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was awarded the OBE in 1944 and the DSO in 1945 while still very young. After the war he became assistant surgeon at the Glasgow Western Infirmary in 1946, took his ChM in 1952 and in 1953 became surgeon in charge at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1968 to 1970, and in 1980 was elected president of the General Medical Council of Great Britain. He held fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England and of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and was knighted in 1976.