Professor David F. Wright, historian and theologian, 1937-2008
Professor David Wright died on the February 19 after a long battle with prostate cancer. He will be sorely missed not only in Scotland where he worked for so many years but throughout the evangelical world where his contribution was more significant that he ever realised.
Derek Prime
I first met David when he was a sixth-former at the Bec Grammar School in South London. He had only recently professed faith in our Lord Jesus Christ through the instrumentality of his Crusader Class at the age of 17. At Cambridge he was at Christ’s College where he gained a first in history and theology, going afterwards to Oxford to become a research student in Lincoln College from 1961-4. This was followed by his appointment as lecturer in ecclesiastical history at New College in the University of Edinburgh and senior lecturer in 1973.
