William Wright Virtue

William Wright Virtue (27 March 1863 – 18 September 1926) was an engineer known for establishing the Moffat-Virtue Company along with John Moffat.

Virtue and his family moved to Australia, settling in Sydney around 1891, where he worked with John Moffat to engineer and patent several improvements to sheep shearing devices and start the Moffat-Virtue Sheep Shearing Machine Co. in the early 1890s. The company was restructured into two companies, Moffat-Virtue Ltd and the Federal Sheep Shearing Co., and by 1914 'Moffat-Virtue' became a household name in rural Australia.

Virtue retired from his position of managing director at Moffat-Virtue in 1922, although he remained somewhat involved in the company. He died in 1926, and was survived by his wife, his two daughters, and one son, Graham Virtue, who at the time was serving in his father's old position as managing director of the Moffat-Virtue company.