William Dumaresq Wright (c.1833 - 5 August 1886) was a Ceylonese civil servant, the thirteenth Treasurer of Ceylon (1882-1886) and the third Mayor of Colombo (1884-1886).
[1] William Dumaresq Wright was born c.1833 in Colombo, the eldest son of Henry Wright, the Accountant General and Controller of Revenue of Ceylon (1841–1847) and Camilla née Lowe, the daughter of Sir Hudson Lowe.
[4] He married Amy Delatre Braybrooke (1833-1921) on 4 July 1857, the youngest daughter of Colonel Samuel Baybrooke, in Colombo.
[5] Dudley, a doctor, was awarded the Chevallier of the Légion d'honneur for his work at the Hospital de L’Alliance in France in 1914.
Wright died on 5 August 1886, from injuries he received when he was thrown from a horse carriage ten days earlier.