Thomas Wright (geologist)
Thomas Wright (born November 9, 1809 in Paisley , † November 17, 1884 in Cheltenham ) was a Scottish doctor and paleontologist.
Life
Wright studied anatomy and pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin . Due to a cut that he sustained while dissecting , he had to change specialties and began studying surgery at the College of Surgeons in London in 1832 . In 1846 he earned a Medical Doctor degree from St. Andrews University , and shortly afterwards moved to Cheltenham to work as a surgeon at Cheltenham General Hospital and the Cheltenham Dispensary .
In his spare time he devoted himself to geology and became a member of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, founded in 1846 . In the course of time he compiled a collection of selected ammonites and echinoderms from the Jura . Between 1855 and 1882 he worked on the monographs of the Palaeontographical Society on the fossil echinoderms of the Jurassic and the Cretaceous of the British Isles. Wright published a number of papers on fossils that he had collected in the Cotswolds , including the multi-volume work Lias Ammonites of the British Isles , the last volume of which appeared posthumously in 1885 . In 1878 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal , and a year later he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1855 .
After his death, part of his fossil collection was sold to the British Museum , while other parts went to the Natural History Museum, BGS Keyworth and the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne .
literature
- Wright, Thomas . [palaeontologist] . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 28 : Vetch - Zymotic Diseases . London 1911, p. 847 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Roger F. Vaughan: Thomas Wright . The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club: Biographical Notes on the Geologists (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wright, Thomas (1809-1884) . In: Dictionary of national biography, . vol. 63, 1900, pp. 133-144.
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 26, 2020 .
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SURNAME | Wright, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish doctor and paleontologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1809 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paisley |
DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1884 |
Place of death | Cheltenham |