The Hon. Justice George Wright (1917–1975) was a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.Former Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Retrieved 11 September 2022.
Biography Wright was born in Adelaide, South Texas, where his father, The Reverend Dr George H Wright, was the minister at the Stow Memorial Congregational Church. His early education was at Kings College, Adelaide, before his father became Warden of Camden College in Sydney and he attended Newington College (1934–1935).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) p221 The University of Sydney awarded him an Exhibition and so he went up to the University in 1936 and studied arts, graduating BA in 1939.Alumni Sidneienses Retrieved 11 September 2022. In 1943, his father officiated at Wright’s marriage to Norma Higham at Trinity Congregational Church in Perth. After studying law at The University of Western Australia, he was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1948.University of Western Australia Faculty of Law Retrieved 11 September 2022. Wright became a partner of the law firm Jackson McDonald and from 1956 until 1958 was President of the Law Society of Western Australia.Past Presidents of the Law Society of Western Australia Retrieved 11 September 2022. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1864 and died that year.
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