page_title: Thomas Guthrie Wright
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Guthrie Wright / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: North side of Charlotte Square Houses designed by Robert Adam and built in the last decade of the 18th century. The entire street frontage has a symmetrical unity. The plan to mirror this on the south side of the square was not adhered to after Adam's death in 1794.
context_page_description: Thomas Guthrie Wright WS FRSE FSA was a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian.
context_section_description: He was born in Edinburgh in 1777 the son of Charles Wright a stationer and bookseller living and trading from Parliament Square on the Royal Mile.
  He trained as a lawyer in at Edinburgh and qualified as a Writer to the Signet in 1802. From 1806 until death he was Auditor to the Court of Session in the Edinburgh courts.
  In 1820 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir David Brewster, Thomas Allan and Joshua Henry Davidson . At this time he was living at 2 Charlotte Square, a magnificent townhouse by Robert Adam.
  In 1830 he was living at 6 St Colme Street on the fashionable Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End.
  He died in Paris on 1 September 1849 and is buried in the prestigious Pere La Chaise Cemetery in the north-east of the city.
caption: Charlotte Square
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