Edward Wright (cricketer, born 1874)

Edward Campbell Wright (23 April 1874 – 28 July 1947) was an English schoolmaster and cricketer who played for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and Kent between 1894 and 1902.

Wright was born at South Shields in County Durham, the son of a Church of England clergyman.

His father died in 1880 and Wright was educated at the Clergy Orphan School in Canterbury where he played cricket.

[1][2] Wright made his first-class cricket debut for Gloucestershire in 1894, playing in a County Championship match against Yorkshire at the Ashley Down Ground in Bristol.

[3] By 1901 he was working as a teacher at the Clergy Orphan School and in 1902 played his final two first-class matches, appearing for Kent against Middlesex at Lord's and Essex at Leyton.