H. Nelson Wright

Henry Nelson Wright (1870-1941) was a British civil servant in India and a numismatist, specialising in Indian numismatics.[1]

Career

Nelson Wright was a member of the Indian Civil Service, but is best known for his work on Indian numismatics. He collected coins while working in India. His collection of Islamic coins is now in the British Museum and the Delhi Museum. His collection of Gupta coins is in the British Museum. He was a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, and a founder member of the Indian Numismatic Society, and both societies recognized his contribution to the field by awarding him gold medals.[2][3] The Numismatic Society of India now awards the Nelson Wright Medal for academic work in numismatics.[4]

Awards and honours

Publications
  • 1906-28 (with Vincent Arthur Smith, and John Allan), Catalogue of the coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta : including the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
  • Catalogue of the coins of Indian Museum Calcutta including the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : vol 3 Mughal Emperors of India
  • 1932 "The Coinage of Malwa", Numismatic Chronicle
  • Coins of the Mughal Emperors of India (reprint 1975)
  • 1936 The coinage and metrology of the Sult̤āns of Dehlī : incorporating a catalogue of the coins in the author's cabinet now in the Dehlī Museum

References
  1. Hugh Pagan, "Record of Members and Fellows" in R.A.G. Carson, A History of the Royal Numismatic Society (Sotheby's/RNS, 1986), p. 75.
  2. Obituary in "Proceedings of the Royal Numismatic Society", The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Sixth Series, Vol. 1, No. 1/2 (1941), pp. 11-12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42663326
  3. Website of Numismatic Society of India. http://www.bhu.ac.in/aihc/ins.htm - retrieved 3 July 2018
  4. http://www.bhu.ac.in/aihc/library.htm - retrieved 3 July 2018

Bibliography
  • Urquhart, Judy (2022). Henry Nelson Wright Numismatist and Indian Civil Servant. Judy Urquhart. ISBN 979-8842868667.
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