For other people named William Wright, see William Wright (disambiguation).

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.

Wright was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Rutherglen cons*uency in Lanarkshire, and held the seat until his death in 1931, aged 68. 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.

References

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) . British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd:ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN:0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Wright