Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright

Sir Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, LL.D. was the Secretary and Librarian of the London Library from 1893 until his death. He managed expansion of the library and compiled a comprehensive catalogue of its collection. The Times called him the guiding genius of the library, the driving force behind the four decades of its growth. The Library itself hails Wright as the real architect of the London Library as it is today.

Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright was born in Yorkshire into a family of mixed AngloIrish and Swedish descent. He was the third son of reverend Charles Henry Hamilton Wright. His father was ordained deacon in 1859 later in life he officiated in Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool and managed the Protestant Reformation Society. His mother was the daughter of Nils Wilhelm Almroth, Governor of the Swedish Royal Mint in Stockholm. His brother Almroth Wright became a prominent bacteriologist and antifeminist.

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