THOMAS

See also:

• WRIGHT, CARROLL DAVIDSON (1840-1909)
• WRIGHT, CHAUNCEY (1830-1875)
• WRIGHT, JOSEPH (1734-1797)
• WRIGHT, SILAS (1795-1847)
• THOMAS WRIGHT (1809–1884)
• WRIGHT, THOMAS (1810—1877)
• WRIGHT, WILLIAM ALDIS (1836– )

WRIGHT (1809–1884)  , British palaeontologist, was born at Paisley in Renfrewshire on the 9th of November 1809 . He studied at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, and qualified as a doctor in 1832 . Soon afterwards he settled at Cheltenham, and graduated M.D. at St Andrews in 1846 . He devoted his leisure to geological pursuits, became an active member of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club (founded in 1846), and gathered a fine collection of Jurassic ammonites and echinoderms . He contributed to the Palaeontographical Society monographs on the British fossil Echinodermata from the Oolitic and Cretaceous formations (1855–1882); he also began (1878) a monograph on the Lias ammonites of the British Islands, of which the last part was issued in 1885, after his death . He wrote many papers in the Ann. and Mag . Nat . Hist. and Proc . Cotteswold Club . The Wollaston medal was awarded to him by the Geological Society of London in 1878, and he was elected F.R.S. in 1879 . He died at Cheltenham on the 17th of November 1884 .