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- Bryce McMurdo Wright Sr
- Also known as
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Bryce McMurdo Wright Sr
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primary name: Wright, Bryce McMurdo Sr
- Details
- individual; dealer/auction house; English; Male
- Life dates
- 1814-1874
- Address
- 90 Great Russell Street (opposite the British Museum) (see 1873 invoice in Ethno archive)
- Biography
- Dealer of minerals, fossils, archaeological and ethnographic objects, at 90 Great Russell Street, London.
Described on his letter-head as 'Mineralogist, Geologist and Conchologist'. Wright Sr began in business in about 1842 selling minerals and fossils. He later owned a shop on Great Russell Street, London and began dealing ethnographic material and archaeology in the 1860s, selling much to the British Museum.
Awarded a medal at the 1862 International Exhibition for his 'geoplogical collections'.
His son of the same name (q.v.) inherited the business from his father.
- Bibliography
- Cooper, Michael P., 1999. 'Bryce McMurdo Wright, father and son, 50 years of mineral dealing, 1845-1895.'
Cooper, Michael P.; Wilson, Wendell E.; Wilson, Marc L., (2009). ‘Famous mineral dealers: Bryce McMurdo Wright, SR. (1814-1874) and Bryce McMurdo Wright, JR. (1850-1895).(Biography)’. The Mineralogical Record, November 2009 Issue.
Brassey, Annie (Baroness): Wright, Bryce M'Murdo. (1885). A catalogue raisonée of the natural history, ethnological specimens, and curiosities collected by Lady Brassey, during the voyages of the "Sunbeam", 1876-1883, exhibited at Sir Thomas Brassey's rooms, School of Fine Art, Claremont, Hastings / by Bryce Wright. London: William Clowes and Sons Ltd.
