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Archibald Wright (other)
Archibald Wright may refer to: * Archibald Wright (British Army officer) (fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ... 1870s–1900s) * Archibald Wright (judge) (1809–1884), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court * Archie Wright (1924–1990), Scottish footballer {{human name disambiguation, Wright, Archibald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Wright (British Army Officer)
Brigadier-General Archibald John Arnott Wright, (19 January 1851 – 18 January 1943) was a British Army officer. Military career Wright was commissioned into the 30th Regiment of Foot on 22 October 1870. He was promoted to lieutenant on 28 October 1871, and to captain on 10 November 1880. He became adjutant of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment in September 1890. He saw action during the Second Boer War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Following the end of this war, he was on 30 October 1902 promoted to colonel and appointed in command of the 15th Regimental District, head quarter of the East Yorkshire Regiment based in Beverley. After commanding a district in South Africa, he was promoted to temporary brigadier general in January 1906 and took command of a grouped regimental district. He became general officer commanding (GOC) the West Riding Division in April 1908 and then commanded a brigade during the First W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are Will (law), wills Attestation clause, attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones was born before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Wright (judge)
Archibald Wright (November 29, 1809 – September 13, 1884) '' Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette'' (September 15, 1884), p. 4. was a Tennessee lawyer who served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1858 to 1885. Early life, education, military service, and career Born in Maury County, Tennessee, to very poor parents of Scottish ancestry, shortly after his birth his family moved to the adjoining[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |