won deep appreciation and he acquired the nickname "The Radio Padre". In 1942 he was appointed Senior Chaplain to the 52nd (Lowland) Division of the British Army, serving in Italy, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Following the war, Ronald Selby Wright played a considerable role in renewing interest in liturgy in the Church of Scotland. Drawing on John Knox’s work (notably the Book of Common Order of 1564), he devised a liturgical order of service for use at Canongate Kirk, including considerable participation by the congregation (then highly unusual in the Church of Scotland.) He was very much of the ‘High Church’ tradition within the Church of Scotland; he was President of the Scottish Church Society. He also oversaw the renovation and restoration of Canongate Kirk, through the removal of unsympathetic Victorian accretions (such as the galleries and an overbearing organ in front of the pulpit.) The church was thus restored to a dignified, aesthetic simplicity of high quality. From 1946 he lived at 17 Regent Terrace in Edinburgh, a truly huge and luxurious property. He valued the church’s connections with the state and in 1963 became a Chaplain to The Queen. The Queen worships in Canongate Kirk when in residence at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. He was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1986, Doctor of Divinity (DD) by the University of Edinburgh in 1956 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 1973. A 1997 Sunday Times article, citing the private diaries of an unnamed deceased member of an upper class Scottish family, claimed that Wright was a persistent paedophile who was treated for venereal disease. However, Tam Dalyell, writing in the Independent, said "... there seemed to be little question and certainly no evidence.." that he was a paedophile. He never married but one source claimed he had a platonic relationship with a nurse who fell in love with him. He retired from Canongate Kirk in 1977 and continued to live in Edinburgh, where he died in 1995 at the age of 87. His ashes are buried immediately east of the church, with a small granite memorial, immediately below the monument to Robert Hurd. References 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland People educated at Stewart's