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Thomas Wright

1809–84

Scottish physician and palaeontologist. Medical officer for Cheltenham and the surrounding districts, and surgeon to Cheltenham General Hospital. Formed an extensive collection of Jurassic fossils. President of the Literary and Philosophical Association of Cheltenham. FRS 1879.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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