{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} [[File:Thomas Wrightson, Vanity Fair, 1908-05-06.jpg|thumb|"Tariff Reform", caricature by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1908.]] '''Sir Thomas Wrightson, 1st Baronet''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|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.<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27255 |page=8382 | date=11 December 1900}}</ref> He died in June 1921, aged 82.
He was the brother of John Wrightson, the founder of Downton Agricultural College.
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==References== {{Reflist}} *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *{{Rayment-bt|date=March 2012}} *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}
== External links == *{{Hansard-contribs | mr-thomas-wrightson | Thomas Wrightson }}
{{S-start}} {{S-par|uk}} {{Succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Stockton | years = 1892–1895 | before = Sir Horace Davey | after = Jonathan Samuel}} {{Succession box | title = Member of Parliament for St Pancras East | years = 1899–1906 | before = Robert Grant Webster | after = Hugh Lea}} {{S-reg|uk-bt}} {{S-new}} {{S-ttl | title=Baronet<br />'''(of Neasham Hall)''' | years=1900–1921}} {{S-aft | after= Thomas Garmondsway Wrightson}} {{s-npo|pro}} {{s-bef| before=Jeremiah Head }} {{s-ttl |title=President of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers |years=1874–1876 }} {{s-aft|after= Thomas Whitwell }} {{S-end}}
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