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William Battie-Wrightson (6 October 1789 – 10 February 1879) was a British landowner and Whig politician. He was the elder son of William Wrightson of Cusworth Hall, near Doncaster, MP for
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. He undertook the Grand Tour of Europe with his sister, Harriet, from 1816 to 1817. Battie-Wrightson was educated at
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(1812), and trained for the law at
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, being called to the bar in 1815. He succeeded his father to the Cusworth estate in 1827. He was elected MP for
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in 1826 and then sat for
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from 1830 to 1832 and for
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from 1835 to 1865. He married Georgiana, the daughter of Inigo Freeman Thomas of Ratton Park, Sussex.


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* 1789 births 1879 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of Lincoln's Inn Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies 19th-century English landowners People from the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub