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Sir John Wright, 1st Baronet

Sir John Wright, 1st Baronet

British steel manufacturer


Sir John Roper Wright, 1st Baronet, DL (12 March 1843 – 25 July 1926) was a British steel manufacturer.

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Wright was born in Croston, near Chorley, Lancashire. He became a pupil at the Soho Engineering Works in Preston and then worked for Sir William Siemens. He established his own company, Wright, Butler & Co, at Gowerton, near Swansea, and founded a number of steel works. His company was later absorbed by Baldwins Ltd, of which he became a director. He became chairman in 1908, succeeding Alfred Baldwin, father of Stanley Baldwin, the future prime minister.

Wright was a prominent Liberal Unionist and unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in 1895 and 1910. He was created a Baronet in the 1920 New Year Honours.[1]

Wright died in Bath, Somerset, in 1926.[2] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, William Charles, upon whose death in 1950 the title became extinct.[3]


Footnotes

  1. "No. 31712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 2.
  2. "Death registration". FreeBMD. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  3. Profile, dmm.org.uk; Retrieved 14 June 2015.

References

  • Obituary, The Times, 27 July 1926
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