Michael Wright (diplomat)

Sir Michael Robert Wright, GCMG (3 December 1901 – 10 June 1976) was a British diplomat. He was British Ambassador to Norway from 1951 to 1954 and Ambassador to Iraq from 1954 to 1958.[1]

In July 1957, he and his wife were held prisoner by Iraqi rebels at the British embassy in Baghdad.[2]

References
  1. "Sir Michael Wright". The Times. 12 June 1976. p. 16.
  2. "British ambassador and wife trapped for eight hours". Alamy. Retrieved 9 September 2021.


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