Wright, Peter

Education

Student United College 1752-1753 [b]. (Ternar).

M.A. and M.D. 15.7.1765 on testimonials signed by John Eliot and John Walker.

Birth/childhood

Baptised 12.12.1737 son of Robert Wright of Foodie.

Attended Cupar Grammar School 1746-1752.

Career

Practised in Glasgow from 1776. [Doctor]

Professor of the Theory of Medicine, Andersonian University. Five times President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. [University professor]

Death

Died 1819.

Sources

  • Dairsie parish record per Julie Poole
  • A. Duncan, Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow 1599-1850 (Glasgow, 1896)
  • MS in St AUL TypBC8EO3TB
  • Dundee Advertiser 26.5.1809 - death of wife