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THOMAS WRIGHT (1810-1877), English antiquary, was born near Ludlow, in Shropshire, on the 21st of April 1810. He was descended from a Quaker family formerly living at Bradford, Yorkshire. He was educated at the old grammar school, Ludlow, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1834. While at Cambridge he contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine and other periodicals, and in 1835 he came to London to devote himself to a literary career. His first separate work was Early English Poetry in Black Letter, with Prefaces and Notes (1836), which was followed during the next forty years by a very extensive series of publications, many of lasting value. He helped found the British Archaeological Association and the Percy, Camden and Shakespeare Societies. In 1842 he was elected corresponding member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of Paris, and was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries as well as a member of many other learned British and foreign bodies. In 1859 he superintended the excavations of the Roman city of Uriconium, near Shrewsbury, of which he issues a description. []

Principle Works Wright published a broad range of texts, covering all manner of subjects from historical accounts, plays, literaty criticisms, and poems to dictionaries, mathematical texts, and essays covering a wide array of subjects.

Queen Elizabeth and her Times, a Series of Original Letters (1838); Reliquiae antiquae (1839-1843, 1845); Political Ballands and Carols (1841); Popular Treatises on Science (1841); History of Ludlow (1841, 1852); Collection of Latin Stories (1842); The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman (1842, 1855); Biographia literaria, vol. i. Anglo-Saxon Period (1842), vol. ii. Anglo-Norman Period (1846); The Chester Plays (1843-1847); St. Patrick's Purgatory (1844); Anecdota literaria (1844); Archeaological Album (1845); Essays connected with England in the Middle Ages (1846); Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1847-1851); Early Travels in Palestine (1848); England under the House of Hanover (1848); Geoffrey Gaimar's Metrical Chronicle (1850); Narratives of Sorcery and Magic (1851); The Celt, the Roman and the Saxon (1852); Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English (1857); A Volume of Vocabularies (1857); Malory's History of King Arthur (1858); Political Poems and Songs from Edward III to Richard III( 1851-1861); Songs and Ballads of the Reunion of Philip and Mary (1860); Essays on Archaeological Subjects (1861); Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England in the Middle Ages (1862); Roll of Arms of Edward I (1864); Autobiography of Thomas Wright (1864); History of Caricature (1865); Womankind in Western Europe (1869); Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets of Lath Century (1872).

Wright is referenced here: Allibone's Dictionary

He died at Chelsea on the 23rd of December 1877, in his sixty-seventh year. Wright's Obituary