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George Wright (1917–1975) was a judge of the

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Biography

Wright was born in

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, 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

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and he attended Newington College (1934–1935). The

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awarded him an Exhibition and so he went up to the University in 1936 and studied arts, graduating BA in 1939. In 1943, his father officiated at Wright’s marriage to Norma Higham at Trinity Congregational Church in Perth. After studying law at The

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, 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, George 1917 births 1975 deaths Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia People educated at Newington College