William Wright (Scottish politician)
William Wright (1862 – 9 April 1931) was a
Scottish Labour Party
politician.
Born near Lincoln, Wright joined the Independent Labour Party, and began working for the party as a full-time organiser in South Wales in 1898. He later relocated to Scotland, where he became prominent in the co-operative movement.[1]
Wright was elected at the
Rutherglen constituency in Lanarkshire, and held the seat until his death in 1931, aged 68.[1] The resulting by-election was won by the Labour candidate David Hardie
.
In his spare time, Wright was a
lay reader in the Anglican church, and wrote Agriculture and the Unemployed, and a book of poetry, Down Under.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 085527325-9.
- ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
External links
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