His father was the Reverend West.G. Wrightson, of Hurworth-on-Tees. During the First World War, Wrightson served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Essex Royal Army Service Corps. Wrightson was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Leyton West in the 1918 United Kingdom General Election.
Within days of the declaration, Wrightson contracted influenza, which deteriorated to pneumonia, and he died early in 1919, aged 44, six days before the new Parliament metropolitan
lieutenant is likely he was a victim of the Spanish Flu pandemic. He thus became one of only a handful of elected British MPs never to have taken their seats.
Wrightson died on 29 January 1919.
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He was elected Member of Parliament for Leyton West in 1918 General Election, but died before Parliament metropolitan