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The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wright, Francis Augustus

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1462187The Dictionary of Australasian Biography — Wright, Francis AugustusPhilip Mennell

Wright, Francis Augustus, M.L.A., formerly represented Redfern in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and was Postmaster-General in the Stuart Ministry from Jan. to May 1883, and Secretary for Public Works from that date till Oct. 1885, when he joined Mr. Dibbs, and held office as Minister for Public Instruction, under that gentleman's premiership, till the following December. He was elected for Glen Innes at the General Election in 1889, and again in 1891.