William Wrightson (MP, born 1676)

William Wrightson (29 December 1676 – 1760), of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a British landowner, official and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1724.

Wrightson was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne with Sir William Blackett, Bt at the 1710 British general election when they their wore hats emblazoned with the legend ‘for the Queen and Church’.

He was interested in local affairs and on 20 February 1711 was nominated to draft a bill for the navigation of the Tyne.

[1] Wrightson was returned at the 1715 British general election and voted against the Administration in every recorded division after George I's accession.. His first wife died in 1716 and in 1722 he married as his second wife Isabella Fenwick, daughter of William Fenwick of Bywell, Northumberland.

He commissioned Cusworth Hall built by George Platt between 1740 and 1745 to replace a previous house.