User:David Alan Wright

David Wright is a professional genealogist and historian, and has taught classics and mediaeval Latin at university level. He has written several books on Kentish genealogy and historical sources, and has just published Bryan Faussett: Antiquary Extraordinary, a full-length biography of the pioneering Kentish archaeologist, genealogist and antiquary (1720-1776) who at his death had the world's greatest collection of Anglo-Saxon jewellery and artefacts. The famous rejection of his collections by the British Museum in the 1850s led directly to the setting up of their British Antiquities department, but not before the collections were sold to the Liverpudlian collector and philanthropist Joseph Mayer, ultimately to be housed at the World Museum, Liverpool.