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Obituary: Mr. Arnold Wright, a varied journalistic career (1941)
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Mr. Arnold Wright

a varied journalistic career

Mr. Arnold Wright, who has died at Guildford in his eighty-third year, was for many years a well-known figure in Fleet Street and in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. In a singularly varied career he was from 1888 to 1900 the London editor of the Yorkshire Post.

He was trained for journalism under his father at Ipswich, and as long ago as 1879 he went to India to take up a post on the Times of India. He remained there for eight years and acted as special correspondent during that period at many important functions in India. Later in Australia he was private secretary to the first Lady Brassey; was on board the Sunbeam when she died, and after her death assisted in the production of her posthumous work "The Last Voyage." After he severed his association with the Yorkshire Post he wrote a number of books of travel, and in this connexion he paid a visit to Ceylon in 1906, to complete his "Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon." He was also the part author of "Parliament, Past and present," which achieved considerable popularity when first published in serial form and still remains one of the most accurate and entertaining of the many books which have been published dealing with the history and the daily life of the Palace of Westminster. In 1933 he was awarded a Civil List Pension in recognition of his literary work.

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