"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.[1] He died in June 1921, aged 82.

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

Coat of arms of Thomas Wrightson
Crest
In front of a saltire Gules a unicorn salient Or.
Escutcheon
Or a fess invected chequy Azure and Argent between two eagles' heads erased in chief Sable and a saltire couped in base Gules.
Motto
Veritas Omnia Vincit [2]

References

  1. ↑ "No. 27255". The London Gazette. 11 December 1900. p. 8382.
  2. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1949.


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