He named his small farmhouse Hurworth after a village in England where he had lived as a boy, although - as his father worked as an itinerant builder and architect - the family did not settle anywhere.
Wrightson was born in 1874, the son of the Reverend W.G. Wrightson, of Hurworth-on-Tees.
Three dips in the village green mark the site where as many as 1,500 people were buried in massive lime pits.