Thomas Guthrie Wright
Thomas Guthrie Wright WS
FRSE
FSA(Scot) (1777–1849) was a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh in 1777 the son of Charles Wright a stationer and bookseller living and trading from Parliament Square on the Royal Mile.[1]
He trained as a lawyer in at
Writer to the Signet
in 1802. From 1806 until death he was Auditor to the Court of Session in the Edinburgh courts.
In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir David Brewster, Thomas Allan and Joshua Henry Davidson .[2] At this time he was living at 2 Charlotte Square, a magnificent townhouse by Robert Adam.[3]
In 1830 he was living at 6 St Colme Street on the fashionable Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End.[4]
He died in
Pere La Chaise Cemetery
in the north-east of the city.
Publications
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Family
In March 1809 he married Mary Hill (d.1857) daughter of John Hill.[5]
References
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1775
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1830
- ^ The Edinburgh annual Register 1811