Edward F. Wright

Edward Wright

Player information
Surname	Edward Fortescue Wright
Born	March 11, 1858 Chudleigh , Devon , England
Died	November 16, 1904, aged 46, Kingston , Jamaica
Batting style	Right handed
Bowling style	Round arm, right arm fast
National teams
Years	team
1878	Gloucestershire
1882-1895	Demerara
1895-1897	British Guiana
1901-1902	Jamaica
Career statistics
Game form	First class
Games	18th
Runs (total)	759
Batting average	23.71
100s / 50s	1/3
Highscore	123
Balls	1,615
Wickets	47
Bowling Average	12.80
5 wickets in innings	3
10 wickets in play	2
Best bowling performance	7/15
Catches / stumpings	11 / -
Source: CricketArchive , January 16, 2011

Edward Fortescue Wright (born March 11, 1858 in Chudleigh , County Devon , † November 16, 1904 in Kingston , Jamaica ) was a British colonial police chief in Jamaica with the rank of colonel and a cricketer in the British West Indies .

Life

Wright was one of ten children of Henry Troubridge Wright (1829-1870) and his wife Frances Concetta, nee Franklin (1821-1896). He grew up in the Coburg house, built in 1817/18 near Chudleigh, and attended Sydney College in Bath , which was then in the building that is now the Holburne Museum of Art . His older brother Arthur Frederic Wright (1856-1946) was also a cricketer and officer.

Colonial service

In 1880 he entered the British colonial service. On January 20, 1885, he married Constance Henrietta, née Hext (1856–1890), from Morval (Cornwall ). Their son Arthur Edward Hext Wright (1886-1970) was a staff officer in the Royal Navy and also a cricketer, while their son Owen Franklin Wright (1887-1971) , who was also married, later followed in his father's footsteps as Inspector General of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JFC). The family lived in Newton Abbot .

Wright became Police Inspector and Assistant Inspector General of Police in British Guiana . After the untimely death of his first wife Wright married on February 27, 1893 in the Cathedral Church of Saint Michael and All Angels in Barbados Annie, née Alexander Douglas, daughter of Arthur Harvey Alexander (1843-1905), the head of the immigration service in Guiana.

In 1899 Wright was transferred to Jamaica, where he was appointed Inspector General of the JFC in 1900. In April 1902 Wright was injured in the Montego Bay riot. After a small group of local police settled an incident there, Wright and Inspector William Eden Clarke walked unarmed through town and were mistaken for and attacked by the insurgents for the local police, with Wright sustaining a skull injury. In June of that year he was awarded the Order of St. Michael and St. George for his services . He did not recover properly from his injuries and died two years later at the age of 46.

Cricket

As a youth, Edward Wright was like his brother Arthur a member of the Chudleigh Cricket Club , in 1875 for the Somerset County Cricket Club . and from 1876 to 1884 for the Devon County Cricket Club . In 1878 he played four matches for the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and between 1876 and 1884 for the Devon County Cricket Club.

During his time in British Guiana, he played from 1882 to 1895 at the Demerara Cricket Team and from 1895 to 1897 in the national team . In Jamaica he also played in the national team from 1901 to 1902 .

Others

His son Arthur returned to Chudleigh many years later with his wife Alison.

Awards

• June 1902: Companion des Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG)

Web links

• CricketArchive Statistics
• Cricinfo player profile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} [1] , Kingston Gleaner , May 2, 1917, p. 27. In other sources, November 23 is incorrectly stated as the date of death.
2. ^ ^{A b c d e} Coburg House, Parade , Chudleigh History Group.
3. ↑ House & Occupier Notes - Arthur Wright
4. ^ British Guiana Colonists Index "H" , Van Cooten Voices.
5. ^ British Guiana Colonists Index "W" , Van Cooten Voices.
6. ↑ Constance Henrietta Hext .
7. ↑ Arthir Wright
8. ^ Wright, Owen Franklin , Who's Who in Jamaica –1916.
9. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Kingston Gleaner, February 20, 1930, p. 54. (Archive link unusable)
10. ↑ The Argosy - BMD - 1893
11. ^ British Guiana Colonists Index "A" , Van Cooten Voices.
12. ↑ Gaiutra Bahadur: Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture , Hurst Publishers, 2013, p. 94 ff.
13. ↑ Mr. Edward F. Wright, CMG ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jamaica Constabulary Force.  
14. ↑ The Cricket Statistician, No. 53, pp. 4-6; In: Philip Thorn : An Ill Wind in Jamaica .