Roger Wrightson

Roger Wilfred Wrightson (29 October 1939 – 13 September 1986) was an English cricketer. Wrightson was a left-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper.

Although born in Elsecar, Yorkshire to Frederick Liddell Wrightson and Jessie Arline Hague, Wrightson was raised in Essex where his family moved to when his father took up a teaching position in the county. It was in Grays that he was educated at Palmer's School, going from there to Loughborough University. His father first introduced Wrightson to cricket when he was a child, according to Wrightson had made him, along with his brothers bat as left-handers. Against Warwickshire that season at Clacton, Wrightson scored 84 runs, which was to be his only first-class half century. Later that season when playing against Yorkshire he had his two front teeth knocked out by a bouncer delivered by Fred Trueman.

He and his wife Audrey, who was an art teacher, moved to Cumberland shortly thereafter. Wrightson died at Carlisle, Cumberland on 13 September 1986, aged 46. He was survived by his wife Audrey, son Michael and daughter Anna.