Loftus Wigram
Loftus Tottenham Wigram QC (6 November 1803 – 19 September 1889) was a British barrister, businessman and Conservative politician.
Life
Wigram was a younger son of Lady Eleanor and Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet. His numerous brothers included Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet (1773–1843), a Director of the Bank of England and a Tory Member of Parliament who changed his name from Wigram to Fitzwygram, Sir James Wigram, a judge, Octavius Wigram, Joseph Cotton Wigram, Bishop of Rochester, and George Wigram.[1][2]
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1821, graduating B.A. (8th Wrangler) in 1825 (M.A. in 1828).[3] He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1824, and called to the bar in 1828.
He was a part-owner of Wigram and Green, shipbuilders.[4]
In 1850, Wigram was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Cambridge University, a seat he held until 1859.[5] He was a regular contributor in the House of Commons, speaking 150 times during his nine-year stint in parliament.[6]
Wigram married Lady Katherine Jane, daughter of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, in 1849. She died in September 1863. Wigram died in September 1889, aged 85.[2]
References
- ^ William Courthope, Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1838), p. 605
- ^ a b thepeerage.com Loftus Tottenham Wigram
- ^ "Wigram, Loftus Tottenham (WGRN821LT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ nmm.ac.uk The Green Blackwall Collection Archived 10 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Caernarfon to Cambridgeshire South West". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
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