Background
Wright was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of the Reverend Joseph Farrall Wright (1827–1883), vicar of Christ Church, Bolton and co-founder of Bolton Wanderers football club, and his wife Harriet, née Swallow.
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John Wright
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J. C. Wright was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in 1884.
Career
Wright was ordained deacon on 31 May 1885 and priest on 20 June 1886. After serving as a curate for eight years he became vicar of Ulverston in 1893. Two years later he transferred to Street George"s at Leeds, an important industrial parish, for nine years.
In 1904 he was made a canon of Manchester cathedral, rector of Street George"s, Holme, and chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester.
Early in 1909 he was appointed Archdeacon of Manchester. Later in 1909 Wright accepted the archbishopric of Sydney and was consecrated at Street Paul"s Cathedral, London, on 24 August 1909.
Wright was also Metropolitan of New South Wales and in April 1910 was elected Primate of Australia, the first occasion on which an election was held for this office. He was Ramsden preacher at Cambridge in 1913, and during World War I took great interest in work among the soldiers.
The spread of Anglo-Catholic doctrines in Australia gave him some anxiety as he was Evangelical although of a moderate kind.
Immediately before he came to Sydney he was "permanent Chairman" of the Anglican Evangelical Group Movement - at that time an important liberal Evangelical society of clergy formed in 1906. About the year 1924 he had a serious illness and was henceforth compelled to go carefully. He was buried in South Head cemetery.
He was the author of Thoughts on Modern Church Life and Work, published in 1909.
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Religion
Evangelical Catholicism