William Wright (Northern Ireland Politician)
Sir William Thompson Wright, (September 1927 – 24 July 2022) was a Northern Irish business owner and Unionist politician. Life Wright grew up in Ballymena, and first came to prominence in the late 1950s, when he joined his father's company, the vehicle body building business Robert Wright & Son.Company History
, The Wright Group

Politics

In the 1970s, Wright joined the , and was elected as its Chairman. He stood for the party in North Antrim at the

North Antrim (Assembly Constituency)
North Antrim (, Ulster Scots: ''North Anthrim'') is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the North Antrim UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes. In 1996 members of the Northern Ireland Forum were elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session. However the boundaries of North Antrim were not changed in the 1996–1997 redistribution. Members were elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998. For further details of the history and bo ...
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