In July 1957, he and his wife, Ursula Long were held prisoner by Iraqi rebels at the British embassy in Baghdad.[3]
Biographyedit
The son of the noted judge Sir Robert Samuel Wright, Michael Wright was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1926.
Referencesedit
^"Sir Michael Wright". The Times. 12 June 1976. p. 16.
^Lee, Pamela Anderson; Anderson, Terry H. (1981). The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947. University of Missouri Press. ISBN978-0-8262-0328-1.
^"British ambassador and wife trapped for eight hours". Alamy. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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