Sir Frederick Wigan, 1st Baronet

Sir Frederick Wigan, 1st Baronet, J.P., D.L (4 October 1827 – 2 March 1907)^[3] of Clare Lawn in Mortlake, Surrey and of Purland Chase in Ross, Herefordshire, was a hops merchant based at Southwark, in Surrey, near the south end of London Bridge. He was also a director of the North London Railway^[3] and had business interests in several water supply companies^[4] and in the brewers Samuel Allsopp & Sons^[5] Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton^[6] and Worthington and Co.^[7] He was also a collector of orchids.^[8]

Monument to Sir Frederick Wigan, 1st Baronet in Southwark Cathedral, showing arms of Wigan: Vair, on a pile or a mount in base vert thereon a mountain ash tree proper^[1][2]

Wigan was born in East Malling, Kent, the son of a hop merchant. He married Mary Harriet Blunt at Mortlake in April 1857^[9] and the couple had ten children.^[3] He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey in 1894^[10] and knighted that year.^[11] In 1898, he was made a baronet.^[12]

Wigan became a member of the St Saviour's Collegiate Church restoration committee 1890, which oversaw the rebuilding of the nave by the architect, Arthur Blomfield.^[13] He donated two carved oak screens, designed by Blomfield,^[14] as well as two windows by Charles Eamer Kempe to the church.^[15] In 1905, the building became Southwark Cathedral and Wigan was appointed Treasurer of the chapter.^[3] The year after his death, a sculpted bust was installed in the south transept.^[16] A chalice and paten were presented to the cathedral in Wigan's memory by his niece in 1910.^[17]

Sir Frederick was succeeded as baronet by his son, Frederick William Wigan, who died at his home, Windlesham Court, on 6 April 1907, just over a month later.^[18]

References

1. crest:On a mount Vert a mountain ash tree surmounted by a rainbow all Proper. motto: Carpe Diem
2. Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage, and knightage, Privy Council, and order of preference,1949
3. "Obituary". The Times. No. 38271. London. 4 March 1907. p. 7.
4. "The Odessa Waterworks Company". Daily Telegraph. No. 6237. 25 March 1872. p. 9.
5. "Samuel Allsopp and Sons (Limited)". Daily Telegraph. No. 9890. 3 February 1887. p. 1.
6. "Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton". Daily Telegraph. No. 10192. 21 January 1888. p. 4.
7. "Worthington and Co". Daily Telegraph. No. 10500. 15 January 1889. p. 1.
8. "County jottings". Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser. No. 1052. 1 June 1907. p. 4.
9. "Births, marriages and deaths". The Observer. 4 May 1857. p. 4. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
10. "Surrey notes". Surrey Mirror. No. 779. 7 March 1894. p. 5.
11. "News in brief". The Times. No. 34324. London. 24 July 1894. p. 10.
12. "The Queen's levee". Surrey Times and County Express. No. 2453. 27 May 1898. p. 7.
13. "St Saviour's '(Southwark) Collegiate Church Restoration Fund". Morning Post. No. 36732. 8 March 1890. p. 1.
14. "Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Guardian. No. 2791. 31 May 1899. p. 6.
15. "Reopening of St Saviour's, Southwark". The Guardian. No. 2672. 17 February 1897. p. 34.
16. "London day by day". Daily Telegraph. No. 19523. 11 April 1908. p. 12.
17. "London day by day". Daily Telegraph. No. 17297. 1 October 1910. p. 12.
18. "Obituary". The Times. No. 38302. London. 9 April 1907. p. 10.

External links

• "Wigan, Sir Frederick". Who's Who. A & C Black. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U192213. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Clare Lawn and Purland Chase) 1898–1907	Succeeded by Frederick William Wigan