Wright, William Henry

William Henry Wright, 1816-1877


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Columns:	R [Role]; S [Sources].

Roles:	= Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
	= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
	= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
	GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate); PM = Police Magistrate;
	FN = Footnotes; PSL = Public Service List; S/S1/S2 = Source; TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed; = Reappointed; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
	= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
	British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.

Sources (S, S1, S2):	= Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
	= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
	= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Ongoing = Continues into next calendar year; New date; Date changed in source; Date died; Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed.

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Life Events

Born:	28 March 1816	Sandhurst, Berkshire, England [01].
Arrived:	6 June 1834	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the barque Moffatt. Departed Plymouth, 29 January 1834, via Hobart Town [02] [03] [04].
Married:	28 August 1866	St John's Church, Heidelberg, Colony of Victoria, to Mary Meek [c1836-1911] [05] [06].
Died:	31 January 1877	St Kilda Street, Middle Brighton, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 60 years [07] [08] [09].
Buried:	3 February 1877	St Kilda Cemetery, East St Kilda, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Church of England, Compartment B, No 0315] [10] [11] [12].

Golden Colony Roles

Port Phillip:	Crown Lands:	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844	1845	1846	1847	1848	1849	1850
		1851
Victoria:	Gold Commissioner:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855
	Crown Lands:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860

William Henry Wright

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1829-08-11	1832-12-31	13		Gentleman Cadet, Royal Military College		British Army	Sandhurst		Ensign.
		1833-01-18	1837-09-21	16		Ensign, 50th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Lieutenant.
		1837-09-22	1839-02-07	21		Lieutenant, 50th Regiment of Foot		British Army			Retired.
		1838-09-01	1843-04-30	22		Assistant Surveyor	NSW	Surveyor-General
		1843-05-01	1846-11-30	27		Commissioner	NSW	Crown Lands	Wellington
	1846-11-26	1846-12-01	1851-06-30	30		Commissioner	NSW	Crown Lands	Wimmera		Mayne. to Colony of Victoria.

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	Date is from Wright's gravestone. The location comes from the Australian Dictionary of Biography, but I have not found a contemporary source as yet.
02⇑	Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals; The Sydney Herald, 9 June 1834, p 2 [Trove; 10 October 2023]. This newspaper report incorrectly identifies him as being with the 51st Regiment.
03⇑	Ian Hawkins Nicholson; Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, Volume 2 1826-1840; Roebuck Society, Canberra, 1977; p 113.
04⇑	Wright was in charge of a detachment of the 50th Regiment and 393 male convicts. The convicts and some of the soldiers were delivered to Hobart Town.
05⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Index M1866-002226.
06⇑	Marriages - Wright-Meek; The Argus (Melbourne), 29 August 1866, p 4 [Trove; 10 October 2023].
07⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1877-000467.
08⇑	Death of Mr Wright, the Sheriff; The Herald (Melbourne), 1 February 1877, p 3 [Trove; 18 April 2023].
09⇑	Some reported it as being early on the morning of 1 February 1877.
10⇑	Funeral Notices - Wright; The Argus (Melbourne), 2 February 1877, p 8 [Trove; 10 October 2023].
11⇑	Deceased Search [St Kilda Cemetery; 10 October 2023].
12⇑	The St Kilda Cemetery website has the service date as 2 February, but the funeral notice in The Argus, published on 2 February, states that the funeral is to be on 3 February.
13⇑	The late Mr W H Wright; The Illustrated Australian News (Melbourne), 21 February 1877, p 20 [Trove; 24 October 2024].

Further Reading

Biography:	Leslie James Blake; Wright, William Henry (1816-1877) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Profile:	Wright, William Henry (1816-1877); in: Justin Corfield, Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni; The Eureka Encyclopaedia; Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004; pp 554-444.
Statistics:	William Henry Wright [Parliament of Victoria; 5 November 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2023-11-13	Life Events updated and references added.