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Wright, (Sir) Peter (b London, 25 Nov. 1926). British dancer, choreographer, and director. He studied with Jooss, Volkova, and van Praagh and danced with Ballets Jooss (1945-7 and 1951-2), Metropolitan Ballet (1947-9), St James' Ballet (1948), and Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet (1949-51 and 1952-5) where he also became assistant ballet master. He taught at the Royal Ballet School (1957-9), and was ballet master at Stuttgart Ballet (1961-7) where he choreographed several works and staged Giselle in 1965. During this period (1963-5) he also worked at the BBC as ballet master and choreographer for television productions, creating Peter and the Wolf (mus. Prokofiev, 1965), and others. He subsequently worked as freelance choreographer and ballet master for such companies as Cologne and Western Theatre Ballet until 1970 when he was appointed associate director of Royal Ballet, becoming director of the Royal Ballet Touring Company in 1975 (renamed Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet and subsequently Birmingham Royal Ballet). He created his first ballet in 1957, A Blue Rose (mus. Barber, for Royal Ballet Touring Company) and later works included The Mirror Walkers (mus. Tchaikovsky, 1962, for Stuttgart Ballet), Arpège (mus. Boieldieu, 1974), and Summertide (mus. Mendelssohn, 1976, both for Royal Ballet Touring Company). However, it has been his detailed, dramatically realistic stagings of the classics which have brought him greatest acclaim, including Swan Lake (1981) and Giselle (1965 and 1987). As a director he has also been admired, turning the Touring Company into a major classical company, with a fine ensemble of dancers and a distinctive repertory that spanned the standard classics, revivals of major 20th-century works such as Massine's Choreartium and Jooss's The Green Table, and new works by company members like Bintley and Oliver Hindle. He oversaw the company's historic re-location to Birmingham in 1990 before retiring in 1995. He was knighted in 1993.

1861–1947, British pathologist. He was professor of pathology (1892–1902) at the Army Medical School, Netley, and professor of experimental pathology, Univ. of London, and principal of the Institute of Pathology and Research (1902–46), St. Mary's Hospital, London. In 1906 he was knighted. An authority on vaccine therapy, he developed a system of antityphoid inoculation and a method of measuring protective substances in human blood (opsonins). His works include Pathology and Treatment of War Wounds (1942), Researches in Clinical Physiology (1943), and Studies on Immunization (2 vol., 1943–44).

(rīt), Sir Almroth Edward 1861–1947.

British physician and pathologist who developed (1896) a vaccine against typhoid fever.

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