David Wright, M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.S.G.
COVID-19 PANDEMIC:  

​Despite the present difficult circumstances genealogy is still flourishing.
I shall not be offering public talks for the next few months, but am still available for research and consultancy. Now is perhaps a good time when we are temporarily restricted in our social activities to review family trees and approach old problems with a fresh pair of eyes.

Do please get in touch if I can help you.

Research Project - William Somner (1606-1669)

My life of William Somner (1606-1669) the Canterbury scholar and antiquary whose two greatest works were 'The Antiquities of Canterbury' (1640) and the 'Anglo-Saxon-Latin-English Dictionary' of 1659, is now complete and appears in the two volumes of Archaeologia Cantiana for 2019 and 2020..

Somner was a notary public as well as being the cathedral auditor and registrar, and was instrumental in saving and protecting many of the cathedral records during the Civil War.

Speaking Dates

Saturday 10 October 2020

​The Keep, East Sussex Record Office, Falmer, Brighton.
A history of writing and manuscripts from classical times to the age of print.