Edward Percival (Perceval) Wright FRGSI (27 December 1834, Donnybrook – 2 March 1910)[1] was an Irish ophthalmic surgeon, botanist and zoologist.

Edward was educated by a private tutor, and was taught natural history by George James Allman.

He practised this profession both before and after becoming professor of botany at Trinity College Dublin, in 1869, a position he held until 1905, having previously assisted William Henry Harvey in this post.

He joined Alexander Henry Haliday on a later entomological expedition to Portugal and two further natural history trips to Sicily, then little known.

Haliday died shortly after the last trip and Wright became his entomological executor after a twenty-year friendship.

Also in the 1850s an exceptional assemblage of Upper Carboniferous fossil amphibians (these are very rare only two other occurrences are known worldwide) were discovered in coal measures at Jarrow Colliery, Castlecomer.

He became a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1857 and in 1883 he was awarded their prestigious Cunningham Medal for editing the society's Proceedings He died at Trinity College on 2 March 1910, and was buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.