Edward George Wright

Edward George Wright (14 June 1831 – 12 August 1902) was an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

He was the engineer for the gasworks in Rome and then worked on the naval dockyards at Royal Arsenal in Woolwich and then Aldershot.

He married in September 1854 at London and went to New Zealand with his wife and their first two sons in 1857, with another one born in their chosen country.

In the 1887 election, he contested the Avon electorate, but was defeated by Edwin Blake.

[1] Wright died at his homestead Windermere, after which a locality between Hinds and Winslow is named, on 12 August 1902.