In 1764 he entered Warrington Academy, where the divinity chair was held by John Aikin.
Thomas Wright at the Unitarian chapel at Lewin's Mead, Bristol, and entered on his duties in January 1771.
He soon afterwards opened a school at St. Michael's Hill, Bristol, which met with great success, some of his pupils rising to eminence in parliament and the professions.
[1] About 1816 his sight began to fail; in 1817 he resigned his pulpit, receiving a large sum of money from his congregation as a testimonial; and preaching his farewell sermon on 22 June, he retired to a cottage he had built for himself at his favourite summer haunt, Southerndown, Glamorganshire.
[1] His publications, of which a list is given at the close of Anna Barbauld's "Memoir" of him (Monthly Repository, xii, 373–5), were numerous, and date from 1790.