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Harry Wrightson
Harry Wrightson (1874 – 29 January 1919) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Leyton West (UK Parliament constituency), Leyton West in the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 General Election, but died before Parliament met. Early life Wrightson was born in 1874, the son of Reverend William Garmondsway Wrightson of The Old Hall, Hurworth-on-Tees. He was educated at Windlesham House School from 1885 to 1888 and afterwards at Marlborough College. In 1901 he married Helen Western with whom he had four sons and a daughter. Military service Wrightson was commissioned into the City of London Artillery, 1st City of London Artillery Volunteer Corps in 1900. In 1917, during the First World War, he was promoted from a retired second lieutenant directly to Lieutenant-Colonel, lieutenant-colonel and given command of the Essex Motor Volunteer Training Corps (World War I), Volunteer Corps, a unit formed of vehicl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
