Joseph Green Wright, 1885 - 1886

Joseph Green Wright was born into an old established manufacturing family connected with the iron trade. He was an engineer and became Chairman of the Waterworks Committee two years after he entered the Council in 1878, succeeding Sir Henry Fowler. He directed the modernising programme at the Cosford Plants. His term of office as mayor commenced in 1885. He was elected Alderman and Magistrate of the Borough in 1886.

WH Jones 1903 Municipal Life in Wolverhampton (Alexander & Shepherd, London) p. 229
J Jones The Mayors of Wolverhampton Vol 2 (Whitehead Brothers, Wolverhampton)
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