Life
1698-1775; b. Wiltshire of Quaker family; ed. Leiden, MD, 1723; settled in Ireland, 1724; issued Natural History of the County of Dublin (Dublin 1772), published with 434 subscribers; wrote on mineral waters and spas; published diary of Dublin weather over 40 years in 1770; Materia medica antiqua et nova (Rotterdam 1775); completed The History of the Quakers in Ireland, commenced by Thomas Wright (1724).
Bibliographical details
A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland[,] from the year 1653 to 1700. Exhibiting their labours in the Gospel, their seal in the promotion of Christian Discipline and sufferings for conscience-sake: Together with the characters and Spiritual experiences of some of their principal Ministers and elders, and other occurrences first compiled, at the request of their National Meeting by Thomas Wright of Cork. Now Revised and enlarged. To which is added, a continuation of the same history to the Year of our Lord 1751. With an introduction describing summarily the Apostacy of the professors of Christianity from the Primitive simplicity and purity through its several stages, and the gradual Reformation from thence. And a Treatise of the Christian Discipline exercised among said People by John Rutty (Dublin: Jackson, 1751), 484pp. + index. [Ulysses Rare Books - online; accessed 20.09.2023].Hugh Ormsby-Lennon writes: ‘Thomas Wright (d. 1724), author of A History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers in Ireland (amplified by John Rutty and published in 1751), hailed from the neighboring town of Gandon where he had been convinced by Francis Howgill in 1655.’ See review of Cork City Quakers 1655-1939: A Brief History, by Richard S. Harrison, in Quaker History, 82:1 [Friends Historical Assoc.] (Spring 1993), pp.42-44 [available online; accessed 20.09.2023.]
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