Wrightson was born in 1874, the son of the Reverend W.G. Wrightson, of Hurworth-on-Tees.
The seat had become vacant on the death of the constituency's Coalition Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Harry Wrightson on 11 February 1919.
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