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Sep 23, 1852 Alloa, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 06 Sep 1933 (aged 80)
Scottish zoologist
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About Robert Ramsay Wright
- Robert Ramsay Wright (23 September 1852 – 6 September 1933) was a Scottish zoologist and academic whose professional career was spent in Canada.Born in a manse at Alloa, Clackmannanshire, he studied at Edinburgh High School before receiving a B.Sc.
- and M.A from the University of Edinburgh.In 1874, he was appointed a Professor of Natural History at the University of Toronto where he would remain until he retired in 1912.
- In 1887, he was appointed the first Professor of Biology at the University of Toronto.
- He was also instrumental in re-establishing the medical school at University of Toronto in 1887.
- In 1901, he became the first Dean of Arts and in 1902 was appointed a Vice-President of the University.In 1889 his textbook An introduction to zoology: for the use of high schools was published by The Copp, Clark Company in Toronto.
