Richard Wright (cricketer, born 1877)

Richard Gane Wright (1 January 1877 – 27 October 1942) was an English first-class cricketer and educator.

Richard Wright
Personal information
Full nameRichard Gane Wright
Born1 January 1877
Gisburn, Yorkshire, England
Died27 October 1942(1942-10-27) (aged 65)
Cookham, Berkshire, England
BattingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1896–1898Hertfordshire
1922/23Europeans
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 18
Batting average 18.00
100s/50s –/–
Top score 18
Catches/stumpings –/–
Source: Cricinfo, 2 July 2019

The son of Richard Wright senior and his wife, Anne Maria Jones, Wright was born on New Year's Day in 1877 at Gisburn, Yorkshire. He later went up to Queens' College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1902.[1] He played minor counties cricket for Hertfordshire from 1896–98, making six appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.[2] He served in the Indian Education Service in British India, where he was the assistant principle of Aitchison College in Lahore.[3] While in India, Wright made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans against the Muslims at Lahore in 1923.[4] Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 18 runs in the Europeans first-innings by Saleh Mohammad.[5] He had married Gladwys Chaning-Pearce at Colombo in 1910; however she died at Lahore in 1918.[6] The following year he married her sister, Rosella Lois Chaning-Pearce.[7] Wright died in October 1942, at Cookham, Berkshire.

References
  1. Oxford and Cambridge Yearbook. 1904. p. 716.
  2. "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Richard Wright". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  3. The India Office and Burma Office List. Harrison and sons, Limited. 1928. p. 874.
  4. "First-Class Matches played by Richard Wright". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  5. "Europeans v Muslims, 1922/23". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  6. Girton College (University of Cambridge). 1948. p. 119.
  7. Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday, August 2, 1919
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