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Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet, (14 February 1824 – 12 November 1905) was an English metals manufacturer and
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Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet, (14 February 1824 – 12 November 1905) was an English metals manufacturer and Liberal Party
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(and later Liberal Unionist Party
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) politician.
Biography
Wiggin was born on 14 February 1824 inCheadle, Staffordshire
Cheadle is a market town and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands District of Staffordshire, England, with a population of 12,165 at the 2011 census. It is located between Uttoxeter, Leek, Ashbourne and Stoke-on-Trent.
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, the son of William Wiggin of Cheadle, whose friend Charles Askin was a partner with Brooke Evans in a nickel and cobalt refining and manufacturing business in Birmingham. Henry joined the company in 1842. He became a partner in 1848 after Askin's death. The company name, originally Evans and Askin, was changed to Evans and Wiggin around 1865 and to Henry Wiggin and Company in 1870. He was also a Director of the Midland Railway
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, the Staffordshire Water Works Co., the Birmingham Joint Stock Bank, and Muntz's Metal Co. He was a governor of King Edward's School, Birmingham
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, a J.P. for Worcestershire
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and Birmingham
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, and Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire.Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886/ref> In 1880 Wiggin was elected as a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for East Staffordshire
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and held the seat until the reorganisation of 1885. He was then elected MP for Handsworth and held the seat until 1892. He became a baronet
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on 17 June 1892.
Wiggin married Mary Elizabeth Malins 11 June 1851, and lived at Metchley Grange, Harborne
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, Birmingham. He died on 12 November 1905 aged 81, when his son, Henry Arthur Wiggin, succeeded to the baronetcy.
Portrait
An oil portrait of Wiggin hangs in the Marriot Hotel in central Birmingham. For at least two decades the sitter's identity was lost, but was re-established in 2014.See also
*Brightray Brightray is a nickel- chromium alloy that is noted for its resistance to erosion by gas flow at high temperatures. It was used for hard-facing the exhaust valve heads and seats of petrol engines, particularly aircraft engines from the 1930s onwar ...
(alloy developed by Henry Wiggin and Co)
* Nimonic Nimonic is a registered trademark of Special Metals Corporation that refers to a family of nickel-based high-temperature low creep superalloys. Nimonic alloys typically consist of more than 50% nickel and 20% chromium with additives such as titani ...
(family of alloys developed by Henry Wiggin and Co)
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* 1824 births 1905 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies Deputy Lieutenants of Staffordshire People from Cheadle, Staffordshire Politicians from Staffordshire {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub