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{{short description|English cricketer and educator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
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| country = England
| full_name = Richard Gane Wright
| birth_date = 1 January 1877
| birth_place = [[Gisburn]], [[Yorkshire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1942|10|27|1877|1|1}}
| death_place = [[Cookham]], [[Berkshire]], England
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Hertfordshire County Cricket Club|Hertfordshire]]
| year1 = 1896–1898
| club2 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year2 = 1922/23
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 18
| bat avg1 = 18.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 18
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 2 July
| year = 2019
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/35992.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Richard Gane Wright''' (1 January 1877 – 27 October 1942) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and educator.

The son of Richard Wright senior and his wife, Anne Maria Jones, Wright was born on New Year's Day in 1877 at [[Gisburn|Gisburn, Yorkshire]]. He later went up to [[Queens' College, Cambridge|Queens' College]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], graduating in 1902.<ref>{{cite book |title=Oxford and Cambridge Yearbook |date=1904 |pages=716 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OqsgaYdhazsC |language=en}}</ref> He played [[Minor Counties of English and Welsh cricket|minor counties cricket]] for [[Hertfordshire County Cricket Club|Hertfordshire]] from 1896–98, making six appearances in the [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14973/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Richard Wright |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He served in the [[Indian Education Service]] in [[British India]], where he was the assistant principle of [[Aitchison College]] in [[Lahore]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The India Office and Burma Office List |date=1928 |publisher=Harrison and sons, Limited |pages=874 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVkKAAAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> While in India, Wright made a single appearance in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against the [[Muslims cricket team|Muslims]] at [[Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore#Cricket ground|Lahore]] in 1923.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14973/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Richard Wright |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Batting once in the match, he was dismissed for 18 runs in the Europeans first-innings by [[Saleh Mohammad (cricketer)|Saleh Mohammad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/10/10698.html |title=Europeans v Muslims, 1922/23 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He had married Gladwys Chaning-Pearce at [[Colombo]] in 1910; however she died at Lahore in 1918.<ref>{{cite book |title=Girton College (University of Cambridge) |date=1948 |pages=119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIefAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> The following year he married her sister, Rosella Lois Chaning-Pearce.<ref>Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday, August 2, 1919</ref> Wright died in October 1942, at [[Cookham|Cookham, Berkshire]].

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=35992}}

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[[Category:1877 births]]
[[Category:1942 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Ribble Valley (district)]]
[[Category:Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Hertfordshire cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Education Service officers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Lancashire]]

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