Sir John Wright, 1st Baronet

{{Short description|British steel manufacturer}}

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| birth_name = John Roper Wright

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Sir John Roper Wright, 1st Baronet, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DL}} (12 March 1843 – 25 July 1926) was a British steel manufacturer.

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.{{London Gazette|issue=31712|date=30 December 1919|page=2|supp=y}}

Wright died in Bath, Somerset, in 1926.{{cite web |title=Death registration |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=155675831:7041&d=bmd_1653949805 |website=FreeBMD |access-date=25 August 2022}} He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, William Charles, upon whose death in 1950 the title became extinct.[http://www.dmm.org.uk/whoswho/w007.htm Profile], dmm.org.uk; Retrieved 14 June 2015.