Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright MA, FSA, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France
Born	1810
Died	1877
Residence	14 Sydney St Brompton SW [1853]
Occupation	antiquarian
Society Membership membership ESL Ordinary Fellow ASL, AI Hon. Fellow left 1877 deceased elected_ESL 1853.10.20 elected_AI 1853 elected_ASL 1863.04.21 societies Society of Antiquaries Institute of France

Notes

Office Notes

ESL Council 1854-55 member
ESL Council 1855-56 member
ESL Council 1856-57 member [nominated Secretary in Mar. 57 to be elected at General Meeting] [retiring]
ESL Council 1857-58 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1858-59 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1859-60 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1860-61 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1861-62 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1862-63 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1863-64 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1864-65 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1865-66 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1866-67 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1867-68 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1868-69 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1869-70 Vice President

House Notes

Committee to arrange dinner for retiring President Sir B.C. Brodie May 1854; delegate to BAAS Liverpool 1854; sub-committee to consider preparing a manual of ethnology 1854; delegate to BA at Glasgow Sep 1855; offers to represent ESL at Brit. Assoc. at Cheltenham Aug 56 but doesn't go; Committee to consider advancing the Society 1857;Committee for selection and publication of papers Feb 58; Publication committee Jul 58; Committee to arrange new Council Apr 59, 60; Publications committee Nov 60; Committee to arrange Anniversary dinner 61; awarded £25 annually for editing the Journal Jun 65; Publication committee 65

1863.04.21 Mr Blake proposed, and Mr Bollaert seconded a motion that Thomas Wright Esq. be elected an Honorary Member. The Council divided when there appeared in favour of the motion. 7. Messrs Blake, Collingwood, Higgins, Charnock, Lockyer, des Ruffieres, and Bollaert. Against it, 2. Messrs Blackstone and Prideaux. The motion was carried by a majority of 5.

1878.01.08 death noted. Obituary p. 534 JAI vol. 7 (1878)

Notes From Elsewhere

Thomas Wright III, M.A., F.S.A., a 19th century English antiquary. He translated, annotated, and edited many famous works.

Publications

External Publications

Popular Treatises on Science Written During the Middle Ages (with translation) (1841)
The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman (editing) (1842)
Early Christianity in Arabia (1855) (transcription project)
A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages (1862)
The Roll of Caerlaverock (with translation and annotations) (1864)
Autobiography of Thomas Wright (editing; this refers to his grandfather) (1864)
Nare's Glossary (with Robert Nares and James O. Halliwell) (1867)
The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist: with the Story of his Life and Times, published by Chatto & Windus (1874)
The Political Songs of England: From the Reign of John to that of Edward II. in 6 vols.

House Publications

ESL On the remains of a primitive people in the S.E. corner of Yorkshire, with some remarks on the early ethnology of Britain
on the ethnology of the English language
An account of recent excavations in a supposed Roman barrow, and in an early Saxon cemetery in Yorkshire
A report on the ethnological papers read at the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge
On the human remains found in the excavations at Wroxeter
On the true assignation of the bronze weapons, &c, supposed to indicate a bronze age in Western and Northern Europe
On the intercourse between the Romans with Ireland