Robert Hamilton Wright was born in 1924 in Calcutta, where his father was the Commissioner of Police. His boyhood was spent in Britain. Following prep school, he attended Cheltenham College where he was made Head of School. He went on to King's College, Cambridge and achieved a first class Engineering Degree. Bob was awarded a Rugby Blue and also played for both 1st XV Wasps and England.

Between 1943 and 1947, Bob went on Wartime Service to Normandy and Sudan as a Temporary Major. After the war, he decided to return to his roots in India. He moved back to Calcutta and worked for Andrew Yule & Co Ltd where he became Director, and the Indian Mining Association, where he was Chairman for several years. From 1971 to 1996, he became part of the Committee, and later Managing Member, of Calcutta's famous Tollygunge Club.

The "days of the Raj" lingered on in Calcutta and the Wright family and their friends enjoyed many a game of polo, with a cocktail party to follow. Although both Bob and Anne used to, like most other 'sahibs' of their time, dabble in social hunting, they stopped in the 1960s when  they realised that animal numbers were significantly decreasing. 

  (L to R) Belinda, Bob, Anne & Becky,
with a glimpse of Tara at the back

In 1988, Bob received the "Officer of the Order of the British Empire" or OBE for his dedicated service to British citizens in India. Bob has headed the British Citizens' Association for decades and served on the board of Dr. Graham's Homes in Kalimpong in North Bengal. He spent a lot of his time working with the East India Charitable Trust, which runs old people's homes, and several charity schools and hostels. Bob was also the Chairman of a Historical Cemeteries Association and he had been a Steward of the Royal Calcutta Turf Club for many years.

Since the early 1980s, Bob's love for the wild had been nurtured by the setting-up and management of Kipling Camp. He spent his time every month at his Camp, accompanied by his constant companion, 'Becky' the Labrador. Bob Wright passed away on 19th April 2005

Anne's father was an I.C.S. officer, and she grew up in the wilds of Madhya Pradesh. She is a Founder Trustee of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) India, which she helped set up in the late 1960s.

Anne was a member of the Tiger Task Force that was commissioned by the late Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, to select nine tiger reserves for the launch of Project Tiger. She served for twenty-three years on the Indian Board for Wildlife and was closely involved with the passing of the Wild Life (Protection) Act. Anne has also served on the Wildlife Boards of nine states in North East and Central India. She is currently the Chairperson of the Rhino Foundation.

In the early 1980s, Anne was awarded the title of "Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire", or MBE, for her efforts to preserve India's environmental heritage and her conservation work with the Government of India.

Belinda was born in Calcutta in 1953. She was brought up  in a house full of unusual animals, including a tiger cub and a leopard, and thus her love for the animals began when she was a child. Belinda has spent her entire life in India working on wildlife issues, and is now one of  India's leading wildlife conservationists.

In 1994, she founded the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) with the aim of helping to avert India's wildlife crises by providing support and information to combat poaching and the escalating illegal wildlife trade - particularly wild tigers, for which Belinda has had a life long-passion. In her capacity as WPSI's Executive Director, she travels the length and breadth of India to assist and support conservation efforts and to help enforce the law. Belinda has played a legendary role, often going undercover, in the battle against wildlife crime and has literally stared down the barrel of a gun in order to help curb the tiger bone trade.

Before founding WPSI, Belinda was an award-winning filmmaker and photographer. In 1985 she won two Emmy Awards and 14 other major international awards for her National Geographic film 'Land of the Tiger'. To make this film she spent more than two years following the secret lives of wild tigers in Kanha and Ranthambore Tiger Reserves. Belinda has co-authored five books, including 'Through the Tiger's Eyes: A Chronicle of India's Wildlife'. Her photographs and writings have appeared in books, exhibitions, magazines and scientific journals throughout the world, including a number of assignments for National Geographic Magazine.

In June 2003, Belinda followed in the footsteps of her parents and was awarded an OBE for her "services  to the protection of wildlife and endangered species in India".

Rupert Wright was born and brought up in India, but now lives in England. After doing a degree at Oxford University, he trained as an accountant and later qualified as a Solicitor. He is now a partner at NetworkLaw, and specialises in Corporate and Commercial law. Rupert lives in Burnhamwith his daughter Helena and son Timothy, who are both studying at Cambridge.
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