Education
He was educated by private tutors, and proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts as sixth wrangler in 1820, Master of Arts
He was educated by private tutors, and proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts as sixth wrangler in 1820, Master of Arts
Born at Walthamstow, Wigram was the fifteenth child of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet (1744–1830). He was the brother of Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet, Sir James Wigram, Octavius Wigram, Loftus Wigram, and George Wigram. in 1823, and Doctor of Divinity in 1860. He was ordained deacon in 1822, and priest in the year following, and in 1827 was appointed assistant preacher at Saint James"s, Westminster.
In the same year he was also chosen secretary of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, a post which he retained until 1839.
On 28 March of that year he was appointed rector of East Tisted in Hampshire, and in 1850 removed to the rectory of Saint Mary"s, Southampton. On 16 November 1847 he was collated archdeacon of Winchester, and in 1860 was consecrated bishop of Rochester in succession to George Murray.
Sons:
Alfred Joseph (1839 - 1904)
Arthur Henry (1840 - 1842)
Gerrard Andrewes (1842 - 1917) m Selina Wilmot and had Gerrard Edmund (1877 - 1947. He became a vicar)
John (1846 - 1943) m Gertrude Mackenzie and had Henry Joseph
William Loftus (1852 - 1897)
Walter Augustus (1856 - 1921)
Daughters:
Susan Caroline (1828 - 1923) m: Major George Gooch Clowes
Margaret (1843 - 1906) unmarried
Edith Katharine (1851 - 1878) m: Atkinson Holden.