Dudley Wright

Born in 1868, Dudley Wright built a career as a professional journalist and became closely associated with Masonic writing and publishing. Sources consistently describe him as an English writer who served with The Freemason, and some also note work connected with The Times in London.

Wright is remembered for the unusual breadth of his interests. He wrote extensively on Freemasonry, but also on Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, folklore, psychical subjects, and other religious and esoteric themes. That wide scope gives his work a curious, searching quality that still appeals to readers interested in the borderlands between religion, history, and mysticism.

Although he is not widely known today, modern accounts describe him as a prolific author of dozens of books and many articles. The sources found for this overview disagree on whether he died in 1949 or 1950, so that detail remains uncertain here.