WILLIAM ALDIS

See also:

• WRIGHT, CARROLL DAVIDSON (1840-1909)
• WRIGHT, CHAUNCEY (1830-1875)
• WRIGHT, JOSEPH (1734-1797)
• WRIGHT, SILAS (1795-1847)
• WRIGHT, THOMAS (1809–1884)
• WRIGHT, THOMAS (1810—1877)
• WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT (1836– )

WRIGHT (1836– )  , English man of letters, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1888 became vice-master of the college . He was one of the editors of the Journal of Philology from its foundation in 1868, and was secretary to the Old Testament revision company from 187o to 1885 . He edited the plays of Shakespeare published in the " Clarendon Press " series (1868–1897), also with W . G . Clark the " Cambridge " Shakespeare (1863–1866; 2nd ed . 1891–1893) and the " Globe " edition (1864) . He published (1899) a facsimile of the Milton MS. in the Trinity College library, and edited Milton's poems with critical notes (19o3) . He was the intimate friend and literary executor of Edward FitzGerald, whose Letters and Literary Remains he edited in 1889 . This was followed by the Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1895), his Miscellanies (190o), More Letters of Edward Fitz-Gerald (1901), The Works of Edward FitzGerald (7 vols., 1903) . He edited the metrical chronicle of Robert of Gloucester (1887), Generydes (1878) for the Early English Text Society, and other texts .