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politician.

Early life

Fitzwygram was the eldest son of

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Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet (30 January 1744 – 6 November 1830) was a British merchant shipbuilder and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom between 1802 and 1807. Background Wigram was ...

, merchant and shipbuilder of Walthamstow. Among his numerous brothers were Joseph Cotton Wigram,

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, and

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, prominent in the

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as a member of

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and as Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company.

Career

Fitzwygram owned a number of South Sea whaling ships in partnership with his father. Wigram was interested in the foundation of the

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in 1805.Philosophical Magazine 1805

Political career

He followed his father into Parliament in 1806 as Member of Parliament for

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. He was a Director of the Bank of England, and a Fellow of the

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, and was knighted on 7 May 1818. In 1829 he was elected for the Wexford Borough but was unseated on petition. 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.''Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage'' (online edition, accessed 28 February 2011), p. B1002: "The 1st baronet, Sir Robert Wigram, successively MP for Fowey and co. Wexford, obtained eminence as a merchant; he died 1830, having had twenty-three children. The 2nd baronet, MP for Fowey, in 1832 changed, by royal licence, his surname to FitzWygram".

Personal life

In 1812, Wigram married Selina Hayes, youngest daughter of Sir John Macnamara Hayes Bt and Anne ( White) Hayes. Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 4165. * Robert Fitzwygram Wigram (1813–1873), who inherited the baronetcy but died unmarried. * Selina Frances Fitzwygram (1815–1890), who died unmarried. * Eleanor Maria Fitzwygram (1816–1817), who died young. * George Augustus Frederick Fitzwygram (1818–1841), who died unmarried. * Augusta Catherine Fitzwygram (1819–1893), who married Sir George Baker, 3rd Baronet. * Sophia Matilda Fitzwygram (1820–1824), who died young. * Frederick Wellington John Fitzwygram (1823–1904), who married Angela Frances Mary Vaughan, daughter of Thomas Nugent Vaughan and a younger half-sister of

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, in 1882. * William Harcourt Fitzwygram (1825–1832), who died young. * John Fitzroy Wigram (1827–1881), a Reverend who married Alice Ward, daughter of Sir

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, in 1866. * Cordelia Anne Fitzwygram (1829–1830), who died young. * Loftus Adam Fitzwygram (1832–1904), who married Lady Frances Butler-Danvers, daughter of Hon. Charles Augustus Butler-Danvers and sister of

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, in 1866. Upon his death, his eldest son Robert inherited the baronetcy but died without issue. The baronetcy then passed to Fitzwygram's third son,

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References

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