Career
He was one of the first unauthorized colonists in Melbourne and built a weatherboard home on the eastern side of the future city, despite warnings that he would have to move. Foreign nearly three years he waged a successful war of manoeuvre against the Superintendent Charles Louisiana Trobe, appealing over Louisiana Trobe’s head to Governor Richard Bourke in Sydney, Wrighte managed to thwart Louisiana Trobe"s efforts to evict him for much longer than should have been the case. In 1838, Wrighte founded Box Hill by establishing his pastoral run, "Marionvale".
The stones from his original homestead now form the Pioneers" Memorial outside the town hall.
Wrighte also had pastoral interests in New South Wales.
