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Authorised form of nameWright; Thomas (1809 - 1884)
Dates1809 - 1884
NationalityBritish
Place of birthPaisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Date of birth09 November 1809
Date of death17 November 1884
OccupationSurgeon
Research fieldPalaeontology
ActivityEducation:
Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin (qualified 1832). MD (1846, St Andrews)
Career:
Articled to his brother-in-law, a surgeon in Paisley; after qualifying set up in practise in Cheltenham; Surgeon, General Hospital, Cheltenham; collected Jurassic fossils
Memberships:
FRSE; FGS (1859)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1879
RelationshipsMarried: 1) Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Vincent May of Liverpool; 2) (1845) Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Tristram Ricketts
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/20463267
CodeNA6495
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1879/22Wright, Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/11/383Letter from Thomas Wright, St Margarets Terrace, Cheltenham, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society16 June 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
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