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Thomas Guthrie Wright WS
He was born in
FRSE
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...
FSA(Scot) (1777–1849) was a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh
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in 1777 the son of Charles Wright a stationer and bookseller living and trading from Parliament Square on the Royal Mile
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The Royal ...
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He trained as a lawyer in at Edinburgh
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and qualified as a Writer to the Signet
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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
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. His proposers were Sir David Brewster
Sir David Brewster Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order, KH President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, PRSE Fellow of the Royal Society of London, FRS Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, FSA Scot Fellow of the Scottish Society of ...
, Thomas Allan and Joshua Henry Davidson . At this time he was living at 2 Charlotte Square
file:Charlotte Square - geograph.org.uk - 105918.jpg, 300px, Robert Adam's palace-fronted north side
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, a magnificent townhouse by Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (architect), William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and train ...
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In 1830 he was living at 6 St Colme Street on the fashionable Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End.
He died in Paris
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on 1 September 1849 and is buried in the prestigious Pere La Chaise Cemetery in the north-east of the city.
Publications
Family
In March 1809 he married Mary Hill (d.1857) daughter of John Hill.The Edinburgh annual Register 1811References
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