Researching Philip Wright
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 96073 people with the Wright surname? In that year Wright was ranked number 14 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Philip means "lover of horses" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Philip Wright on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Philip Wright and the Wright Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Philip Wright
Philip Adrian Wright
Philip Adrian Wright (born 30 June 1956) is an English musician, also known as Adrian Wright.
Wright had studied film making at Sheffield Art College and was a friend of Philip Oakey. In 1978, he was invited to join the new avant-garde electronic band The Human League which composed of Oakey, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh. Then a non-musician, Wright was appointed as 'Director of Visuals' whose job was to provide lighting and slideshows to accompany the Human League's live concerts.
When the Human League split in October 1980, Wright sided with Oakey, while Ware and Marsh left to form Heaven 17. Necessity forced him to become a musician and he quickly learned keyboards. He and Oakey co-wrote some of the new Human League's songs including the number one hit "Don't You Want Me", plus tracks such as "Darkness", "I Am the Law" and "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" for the album Dare. Wright is also credited with the iconic album sleeve design for Dare.
He remained a key member of the Human League during the early 1980s both as a composer and keyboard player. He left the band in 1986 after becoming disillusioned with the musical direction Oakey was taking and feeling marginalized by their new producers during the recording of the album Crash in Minneapolis.
After The Human League, he worked in film before moving into design.
In 1999, he participated in the BBC documentary on The Human League, part of the Young Guns Go For It series.
Source: Philip Adrian Wright, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaPhilip Wright (cricketer)
Philip Alan Wright was an English cricketer active from 1921 to 1929 who played for Northamptonshire. He appeared in 93 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace. One of three brothers who played cricket, Wright was born in Kettering on 16 May 1903 and died there on 21 December 1968. He scored 1,459 runs with a highest score of 83 and took 343 wickets with a best performance of six for 37. He also played for Cambridge University and represented the Gentlemen in a Gentlemen v Players match in 1924.
Source: Philip Wright (cricketer), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Philip Green Wright
Philip Green Wright (October 3, 1861 – September 4, 1934) was an American economist who in 1928 first proposed the use of instrumental variables estimation as the earliest known solution to the identification problem in econometrics. In a book review published in 1915 he wrote one of the first explanations of the identification problem. His primary topic of applied research was tariff policy, and he wrote several books on the topic. He also wrote poetry, was a mentor to the poet and author Carl Sandburg, and published some of Sandburg's earliest works. Wright was the father of geneticist Sewall Wright.
Source: Philip Green Wright, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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