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Loftus Tottenham Wigram QC (6 November 1803 – 19 September 1889) was a British barrister, businessman and Conservative politician.

Life

Wigram was a younger son of Lady Eleanor and Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet. His numerous brothers included Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet (1773–1843), a Director of the Bank of England and a Tory Member of Parliament who changed his name from Wigram to Fitzwygram, Sir James Wigram, a judge, Octavius Wigram, Joseph Cotton Wigram, Bishop of Rochester, and George Wigram.

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1821, graduating B.A. (8th Wrangler) in 1825 (M.A. in 1828). He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1824, and called to the bar in 1828.

He was a part-owner of Wigram and Green, shipbuilders.

In 1850, Wigram was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Cambridge University, a seat he held until 1859. He was a regular contributor in the House of Commons, speaking 150 times during his nine-year stint in parliament.

Wigram married Lady Katherine Jane, daughter of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, in 1849. She died in September 1863. Wigram died in September 1889, aged 85.

References

  1. William Courthope, Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1838), p. 605
  2. ^ thepeerage.com Loftus Tottenham Wigram
  3. "Wigram, Loftus Tottenham (WGRN821LT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. nmm.ac.uk The Green Blackwall Collection Archived 10 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Caernarfon to Cambridgeshire South West". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  6. Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr Loftus Wigram

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byHenry Goulburn
Hon. Charles Law 		Member of Parliament for Cambridge University
1850–1859
With: Henry Goulburn 1850–1856
Spencer Horatio Walpole 1856–1859 		Succeeded bySpencer Horatio Walpole
Charles Jasper Selwyn
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