Dennis H. Wright

Dennis Howard Wright (11 August 1931 – 8 April 2020) was a British medical doctor and professor of pathology with an international reputation in haematopathology.

Biography Wright grew up in the county of Norfolk and attended the City of Norwich School with a Norfolk county scholarship. He graduated from the University of Bristol in 1953 with a B.Sc. in physiology and in 1956 with an MB ChB (Hons). After receiving his degree, he fulfilled his national service requirement by serving as a pathologist in Kampala, Uganda. There he worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer, and then reader in pathology at Makerere University's medical school, where he spent eight years. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he worked with Dr. Denis Burkitt in describing the pathology of Burkitt lymphoma. Wright became a leading expert on lymphomas. In 1964 he graduated from the University of Bristol with a higher doctorate MD. His M.D. thesis is entitled Malignant Lymphomas in Uganda. In 1965 he qualified as MRCPath. In 1968 he returned from Uganda to England to become a reader in pathology at Birmingham University. In 1972 he was appointed the Foundation Professor of Pathology at the University of Southampton and retired there in 1996 as professor emeritus.

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