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Wright, Christian Edington Guthrie (1844–1907), founder of the Edinburgh School of Cookery

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Wright, Christian Edington Guthrie (1844–1907), founder of the Edinburgh School of Cookery, was born on 19 April 1844 in Glasgow, the only child of Harry Guthrie Wright (1803–1894), manager of the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company, and his wife, Christian (...

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Christian Edington Guthrie Wright (1844–1907) by unknown photographer [detail] Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh; photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London

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