Enright was born in Liskeard, Cornwall, the son John and Bridget E. Enright,[1] and received his schooling at the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, before joining the Navy aged 15 as a "Boy, 2nd Class" on 19 April 1910 at HMS Ganges, a naval training school based at Shotley, near Ipswich in Suffolk,;[2] later he attended the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Admiral Enright was in fact the first person in the history of the Royal Navy to be promoted from the lower deck (non commissioned ranks) to become an admiral. In 1953 he was the honored guest at his old School (RHS) on Speech Day and took the salute at the Speech Day march past of the entire school.[1]