Thomas Wrightson

Sir Thomas Wrightson, 1st Baronet, DL (31 March 1839 – 18 June 1921) was a British Conservative politician.

"Tariff Reform", caricature by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1908.

Sir Thomas Wrightson, 1st Baronet, DL (31 March 1839 – 18 June 1921) was a British Conservative politician.

Wrightson sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockton between 1892 and 1895 and for St Pancras East between 1899 and 1906. In 1900 he was created a baronet, of Neasham Hall in the County of Durham, and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Durham on 4 December 1900. He died in June 1921, aged 82.

He was the brother of John Wrightson, the founder of Downton Agricultural College.

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In front of a saltire Gules a unicorn salient Or.
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Or a fess invected chequy Azure and Argent between two eagles' heads erased in chief Sable and a saltire couped in base Gules.
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Veritas Omnia Vincit

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  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

  • Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

  • Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Wrightson

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