A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wright, Thomas
WRIGHT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 29.)
Thomas Wright entered the Navy, 4 May, 1807, as a Supernumerary, on board the Shark sloop, stationed in the West Indies, where, after serving for rather more than three months, as Midshipman, in the Wolf, he joined, in Jan. 1808, the Hunter sloop, Capts. Fras. Geo. Dickins and Colin Campbell. From the following Nov. until Dec. 1810 he was employed in the Baltic in the Africa 64, Capts. Loftus Otway Bland, Geo. Fred. Ryves, and John Bastard; he then removed to the Stately 64, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson, Rich. Henry Muddle, Stewart, and Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, with whom he served for upwards of two years along the coast of Spain and in Cadiz Bay; he returned home with Capt. Bateman in the spring of 1813 in the Impétueux 74; and he was afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 17 Feb. 1815, employed at Chatham and on the coast of Ireland, a great part of the time as Master’s Mate, in the Eridanus, Ceres, and Tigris frigates, Capts. Henry Prescott, Jas. Prevost, and Robt. Henderson. From June, 1844, until 1848, he had charge of the Semaphore station on Cooper’s Hill, Esher.