OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 19783, 6 February 1928, Page 5

OBITUARY

DAVID M'KEE WRIGHT

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

SYDNEY, February 6, (Received February 6, at noon.)

The death is announced of Mr David M‘Kec Wright, poet and journalist, formerly of Nelson, aged sixty-one. [The Rev. David M‘Kee Wright was formerly a Congregational minister. Ho was born at Ballynaskeagh (County Down), and was a sou of the Rev. William _ Wright, author of ‘The Brontes in Ireland.’ He was educated in a private school in Loudon, and on coming to New Zealand in 1887 continued his studies at Otago University. Ho won the first Stuart Prize Poem in Dunedin in 1897, and entered the Congregational ministry the next year. Ho was pastor at Oamaru in 1898, Newtown 1900, and Nelson 1901, and was editor of the Nelson ‘Times’ in 1905. He was the author of ‘Station Ballads’ (1397) and ‘Wisps of Tussock’ (1900), two books of which the best pieces come as near to setting the model for a New Zealand school of natural ballad poetry as anything that has been done since. His last book of verse showed a highly-perfected technique, and the inspiration was Celtic. He was a frequent contributor to the “Red Pago”, of the Sydney ‘ Bulletin,’ and a most discerning and appreciative critic of Australian poetry,]