Thomas Guthrie Wright

Thomas Guthrie Wright WS FRSE FSA(Scot) (1777–1849) was a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian.

Life
Charlotte Square
Père-Lachaise the Guthrie-Wright tomb

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 Edinburgh and qualified as a 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 Paris 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.[5]

References
  1. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1775
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  3. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820
  4. Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1830
  5. The Edinburgh annual Register 1811
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