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Wright was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, into a Southern Baptist [2] family and attended public secondary schools in San Francisco, California, and San Antonio, Texas. A self-described "Army brat", [3] Wright attended Texas Christian University for a year in the late 1970s, before transferring to Princeton University, where he studied sociobiology, a precursor to evolutionary psychology. [2]
Robert Charles Wright (born April 23, 1943) is an American lawyer, businessman, lobbyist, and author. He is a former NBC executive, having served as president and CEO from 1986 to 2001, and chairman and CEO from 2001 [ 6 ] until he retired in 2007. [ 7 ]
Sir Robert Wright (judge, died 1689) (c. 1634–1689), Lord Chief Justice of England, 1687–1688; Robert Wright (South Carolina judge) (1666–1739), Chief Justice of South Carolina from 1725, son of the above; Robert William Wright (1816–1885), American lawyer, politician, newspaper editor, and author
James Wright was born in London to Robert Wright Jr, son of Sir Robert Wright, Lord Chief Justice of England. In 1730 Robert Wright, James Wright's father, accompanied Robert Johnson to the Province of South Carolina and served as its Chief Justice until 1739.
John Robert "Bobby" Wright (born March 30, 1942) [1] is an American country music singer. He is the middle child and the only son of country singers Johnnie Wright and Kitty Wells . Biography
The name of Robert Wright Esq. on his private family pew in St. Edmund's Church, Sedgefield. Robert Wright (1666 [1] – 12 October 1739 [2]) was an English judge and jurist.He was the son of Sir Robert Wright, Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1687–1689) who died in Newgate Prison following the Glorious Revolution.
Wright was born on February 3, 1964, in a Catholic orphanage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was adopted at the age of nine months by Earl C. and Charlene Wright. He served as a US Navy helicopter crew chief and as a search and rescue diver for five years. He graduated from Howard University in 1991 with a degree in History and Political Science.
Wright was the son of Jermyn Wright of Wangford in Suffolk, by his wife Anne, daughter of Richard Batchcroft of Bexwell in Norfolk. He was descended from a family long seated at Kilverstone, also known as Kelverstone, in Norfolk, and was educated at the free school at Thetford. He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 April 1651.