Background
Fitzwygram was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, merchant and shipbuilder of Walthamstow.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Fitzwygram was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, merchant and shipbuilder of Walthamstow.
Wigram was interested in the foundation of the London Institution in 1805. He was a Director of the Bank of England, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was knighted on 7 May 1818. In 1829 he was elected for the Wexford Borough but was unseated on petition in 1839.
He was re-elected in 1830, but was again unseated in petition in 1831.
He inherited the Wigram Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1830. In 1832 by royal licence, he changed his surname to FitzWygram.
Wigram married Selina Hayes, youngest daughter of Sir John Macnamara Hayes Bt, in 1812. The couple had children.
The baronetcy then passed to Fitzwygram"s third son, Frederick.
Royal Society; 3rd United Kingdom Parliament. 4th United Kingdom Parliament. 5th United Kingdom Parliament.
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He followed his father into Parliament in 1806 as Member of Parliament for Fowey. Fitzwygram"s numerous brothers included Joseph Cotton Wigram, Bishop of Rochester, Loftus Wigram, George Wigram, and Octavius Wigram, prominent in the City of London as a member of Lloyd"s of London and as Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company.