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Wright, Bryce
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- Wright, Bryce McMurdo
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1850-1895
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Bryce McMurdo Wright was born on January 18, 1850, in Liverpool, England.
He was a mineralogist, conchologist, zoologist, and dealer. In 1875, he took over the business from his father, Bryce McMurdo Wright Sr. (1814-1874), who dealt in minerals, fossils, shells, rocks, gems, corals, and ethnological collectibles. He collected and sold objects to the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. In 1891, he was charged, tried, and imprisoned for fraud related to obtaining sales advances. He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society, the Royal Geological Society, and the Royal Historical Society.
In 1880, he married Emma Sarah Louisa Crouch (1859–1929) and divorced in 1891. He died on May 25, 1895, in London, England.
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