Edward Fortescue Wright

Edward Fortescue Wright (born 11 March 1858 in Coburg, Chudleigh, Devon, murdered on 23 November 1904 in Kingston, Jamaica) was an English cricketer who became a member of the Colonial Service in the West Indies. Life and career Wright was a right-handed batsman and a round-arm right-arm fast bowler. He was educated at Sydney College, Bath. Scores and Biographies notes that he was 5 foot 10½ inches tall and weighed 11 stone 10 pounds. Edward Wright played four matches for Gloucestershire in 1878 scoring 81 runs and taking one wicket. On his debut against Surrey James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual reported that "Mr. E. Wright, an amateur debutant, [contributed] a very freely hit 32." Earlier he had played for Somerset in 1875, before they were first-class, and for Devon between 1876 and 1884. He joined the Colonial Service and was posted to British Guiana. He made his debut for the colony against Trinidad in 1882-83 when he took 4 wickets and then scored 123 out of the British Guiana total of 168. This was the first first-class century in the West Indies. In 1887-88 he took 3-17 and 7–15 against Barbados.