William Wright

William Henry Wright (1816 – 1 February 1877) was a British Army officer and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. In 1833, after officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Thomas Mitchell travelled through this region about 12 months after the raids and described how most of the males of the tribe who lived in that area had been killed and many of the women taken to work as slaves on cattle stations.

In late 1846, Wright was transferred to be Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wimmera district. and held that position until the original Council was abolished in March 1856.

Personal life Wright married Mary Meek on 28 August 1866. He died in Brighton, Victoria at the home of George Higinbotham sometime on the morning of 1 February 1877 after dining there the previous night, and was buried in St Kilda Cemetery.