Ronald Edwards Wraith (born 1908, date of death unknown) was a British scholar on public and colonial administration.
[1] Wraith was head of the electoral commission that organized the registration and conduct of the 1959 parliamentary and regional elections.
[2] In 1938, he joined the Education Department of the Borough of Southampton as the Secretary of Youth Services and served in the position through World War II.
[2] In 1946, he visited Africa and worked with the Housing and Social Services Department of Gold Coast.
Wraith went on to write several books on corruption, local government and public administration in developing countries.