Thomas Wright (geologist)

[1] Wright published a number of papers on the fossils which he had collected in the Cotswolds and elsewhere, including Lias Ammonites of the British Isles,[2] and monographs on the British fossil echinoderms of the Oolitic (Jurassic) and Cretaceous formations.

He returned to Scotland to practice and received his doctorate (MD) from St Andrews University in 1846.

In his leisure time, he took up geological pursuits, became a member of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, and made a collection of Jurassic fossils.

[8] In 1855 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Sir William Jardine.

[7] He had one son, Thomas Lawrence Wright, and two daughters, the elder of which married the geologist Edward Wethered.