The Rt. Rev. Thomas Henry Wright, fourth Bishop of East Carolina, died April 26 in a nursing home in Porter's Neck, N.C. He was 92. Bishop Wright was consecrated in 1945, at age 40, and served until 1973.

"He had a deep love of the clergy, their families and the people he served," said the Rt. Rev. B. Sidney Sanders, current Bishop of East Carolina.

Bishop Wright was born in Wilmington, N.C., in 1905, and returned there during his episcopate and following his retirement in 1974. He was a graduate of the University of the South and Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon in 1929 and priest in 1930. He was in charge of Trinity Church, Lumberton, N.C., 1929-30; assistant at Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1931-32; rector of Robert E. Lee Memorial, Lexington, Va., 1934-41; dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 1941-43; rector of St. Mark's San Antonio, Texas, 1943-45.

He married Hannah Hagans Knowlton in 1937, and they were the parents of four children.

Among his activities were chairman of the Overseas Department of the national church for six years, chairman of the Inter-Anglican Mutual Responsibility commission and trustee of the Church Pension Fund.