James Wright (classicist)

James Robertson Graeme Wright is a former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.

Career

Educated at Inverness [Royal Academy], the High [School of Dundee] and the University of Edinburgh, Wright became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 1966. He went on to be a Fellow at St Catharine's [College, Cambridge] in 1978, Secretary-General of Faculties at the University of Cambridge in 1987 and Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 1991.
After retiring from Newcastle University in 2000 he became Chairman of Age Concern.