Background
WRIGHT, Robert Patrick was born in 1857. Son of Robert Wright, Justice of the Peace, Downan, Ballantrae, Ayrshire.
WRIGHT, Robert Patrick was born in 1857. Son of Robert Wright, Justice of the Peace, Downan, Ballantrae, Ayrshire.
Ayr Academy; Edinburgh University. London; Heidelberg.
Lecturer, Professor, and Director of Agricultural Department of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College since 1886. Examiner ex officio in Agriculture for University of Glasgow. Justice of the Peace Ayr.
A Director of Scottish Temperance League, and Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution. Director and one of founders of Scottish Labour Colony. Designer of extensive series of field experiments on farm crops.
Introducer of new varieties of oats from Canada, now widely growm in Britain. Professor of Agriculture since 1899, and Principal since 1900, of the West of Scotland Agricultural College. F.H.A.S.; Royal Society of Edinburgh.