WRIGHT, THOMAS (18101877)

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WRIGHT, THOMAS (18101877) , English antiquary, was born near Ludlow, in Shropshire, on the 21st of April 181o. 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

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its
original
- ORIGINAL
and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

's Magazine and other

periodicals

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, 4 vols. I2mo), which was followed during the next forty years by a very extensive

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of publications, many of lasting value. He helped to found the British Archaeological Association and the Percy, Camden and Shakespeare societies. In 1842 he was elected corresponding member of the Academie des

Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

et Belles Lettres of Paris, and was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries as well as 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 issued a description. He died at Chelsea on the 23rd of December 1877, in his sixty-seventh year. A portrait of him is in the Drawing Room Portrait Gallery for October 1st, 1859. He was a great scholar, but will be chiefly remembered as an industrious antiquary and the editor of many relics of the middle ages.
His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

publications areQueen Elizabeth and her Times, a

Series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Original

ORIGINAL

Letters (1838, 2 vols.); Reliquiae antiquae (1839-1843, again 1845, 2 vols.), edited with Mr J.0. Halliwell-Phillipps; W. Mapes's Latin Poems (1841, 4to, Camden Society) ; Political Ballads and Carols, published by the Percy Society (1841); Popular Treatises on Science (1841); History of Ludlow (1841, &c.; again 1852); Collection of Latin Stories (1842, Percy Society); The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman (1842, 2 vols.; 2nd ed., 1855); Biographia literaria, vol. i. Anglo-Saxon Period (1842), vol. ii. Anglo-
Norman Period (1846); The Chester Plays (1843-1847, 2 vols., Shakespeare Societ; St Patrick's Purgatory (1844); Anecdota literaria (1844) ; Archaeological Album (1845, 4to) ; Essays connected with England in the Middle Ages (1846, 2 vols.); Chaucer's Canter-bury Tales (18471851, Percy Society), a new text with notes, re-printed in i vol. (1853 and 1867) ; Early Travels in Palestine (1848,

Bohn

BOHN, HENRY GEORGE (1796-1884)

's Antiq. Lib.); England under the House of Hanover (1848, 2 vols., several editions, reproduced in 1868 as Caricature History of the Georges) ; Mapes, De nugis curialium (1850, 4to, Camden Society) ; Geoffrey Gaimar's Metrical Chronicle (185o, Caxton Society); Narratives of Sorcery and Magic (1851, 2 vols.); The

Celt

CELT
CELT, or KELT

, the Roman and the Saxon (1852; 4th ed., 1885); History of Fulke Fitz Warine 0855); Jo. de Garlandia, De triumphis ecclesiae (1856, 4t0, Roxburghe Club) ; Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English (1857) ; A Volume of Vocabularies (1857; 2nd ed., by R. P. Wulcker, 1884, 2 vols.) ; Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Paris, 1858, 2 vols.) ; Malory's History of King Arthur (1858, 2 vols., revised 1865) ; Political Poems and Songs from Edward III. to Richard III. (18591861, 2 vols., " Rolls " series) ; Songs and Ballads of the Reign of Philip and Mary (186o, 4to, Roxburghe Club); Essays on Archaeological Subjects (1861, 2 vols.); Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England in the Middle Ages (1862, 4t0, reproduced in 1871 as The Homes of other Days) ; Roll of Arms of Edward I. (1864, 4t0) ; Autobiography of Thomas

Wright

(1736-1797), his grandfather (1864);. History of Caricature (1865, 4to); Womankind in Western Europe (1869, 4to); Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets of lath Century (1872, 2 vols., " Rolls " series).

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