Edward Percival Wright

Edward Percival Wright, who lived from 27 December 1834 to 2 March 1910, was an Irish ophthalmic surgeon who was also a botanist and zoologist. Born at Donnybrook, he studied at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1857, and took his medical degree in 1862. He then studied ophthalmic surgery in Vienna, Paris and Berlin, where Albrecht von Gräfe was among his teachers, and practised it both before and after becoming professor of botany at Trinity in 1869, a post he held until 1905. His natural history work covered marine zoology and deep water dredging, a report on the Alcyonaria of the Challenger expedition, and the founding of the Natural History Review. In 1865 he published a modification of Liebreich's ophthalmoscope, and he translated Donders's work on squint into English. He died at Trinity College and is buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin.