Peter Wright on 27 April 1995 aged 78, he was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease. Peter Wright Peter Maurice Wright (9 August 191627 April 1995) was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book "Spycatcher", written with Paul Greengrass, became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. "Spycatcher" was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. He is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief from 1954 to
Susanna Wright in Moore's commonplace book, a compilation of poetry and prose that was published in 1997 under the title "Milcah Martha Moore's Book". One of the poems is written to Mary Norris Dickinson. Wright is one the three dominant female contributors to Moore's commonplace book, along with Griffitts and Fergusson. Contrary to the then-usual practice, Wright did not write under a pseudonym; in Moore's book her poems are attributed either to 'S. Wright' or to 'S.W.' It is uncertain how many poems Wright produced in total, but it is likely that many are now lost. An early 19th century reminiscence of