Thomas Wright (geologist)

Thomas Wright ( born November 9, 1809 in Paisley, † November 17, 1884 in Cheltenham ) was a Scottish doctor and paleontologist.

Wright studied anatomy and pathology at the Royal college of Surgeons in Dublin. Due to a cut he incurred during the dissection, he had the discipline to change, and began in 1832 with the study of surgery at the College of Surgeons in London. In 1846 he earned the degree of Medical Doctor at St. Andrews University, and moved shortly afterwards to Cheltenham to work as a surgeon at Cheltenham General Hospital and Dispensary in Cheltenham.

In his spare time he devoted himself to geology, and became a member in 1846 founded Cotteswold Naturalists ' Club. Over time, he wore a Sammling selected ammonites and echinoderms of the Jura together. Between 1855 and 1882 he worked with the monographs of the Society Palaeontographical about the fossil echinoderms of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the British Isles. Wright published a series of papers on fossils he had collected in the Cotswolds, daruner the multi-volume work Lias Ammonites of the British Isles, whose last volume appeared posthumously in 1885. 1878, the Wollaston Medal he was awarded, and a year later he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

After his death, some of his fossil collection was sold to the British Museum, other parts went to the Natural History Museum, BGS Keyworth and at the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne.