Diana Kingsmill Wright

Diana Kingsmill Wright (24 December 1908 – 24 January 1982) was a Canadian athlete, journalist and activist.

Biography Diana Kingsmill Wright was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 24 December 1908. She was the daughter of Naval Service of Canada admiral Sir Charles Kingsmill, She was later a member of the Canadian alpine skiing team at the 1936 Winter Olympics, and competed despite having suffered a broken hand.

She married Victor Gordon-Lennox, the son of British politician Lord Walter Gordon-Lennox, in 1932. In this era she was a friend of actor David Niven,

She returned to Ottawa in 1940 after separating from Gordon-Lennox. She remarried historian J. F. C. Wright in 1944, in the Parliament Hill office of J. S. Woodsworth, and moved with Wright to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She later served as editor of Environment Probe, and served on an advisory committee to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on its coverage of agriculture and farming issues.