Lewis Wright

Lewis Wright was a British writer and poultry expert whose dates are commonly given as 1838–1905. He is remembered for books including The Illustrated Book of Poultry, The Practical Poultry Keeper, and The New Book of Poultry, works that made him a familiar name to readers interested in poultry breeding, management, and exhibition.

Sources available here describe him as a poultry, pigeon, and animal expert, and note that his publications helped document rare breeds, trace their histories, and support the growing fancier movement. He also contributed to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica on poultry and poultry-farming, showing how closely his reputation was tied to the subject.

Although concise biographical details are hard to confirm from the materials I found, his books clearly had a long life in print and continued to be cited and reissued after 1905. That lasting readership suggests a writer valued not just for enthusiasm, but for practical guidance readers could keep using for years.