Loftus Tottenham Wigram QC

Queen's Counsel

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 (6 November 1803-19 September 1889), was a British barrister, businessman and Conservative

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 politician.

Wigram was a younger son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet 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....

, by his second wife Eleanor, daughter of John Watts. His numerous brothers included Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet

Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet

Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet FRS was a Director of the Bank of England and a Tory politician.Fitzwygram, who began life as Robert Wigram, was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, merchant and shipbuilder of Walthamstow. Wigram was interested in the foundation of the London...

 (1773-1843), a Director of the Bank of England

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 and a Tory Member of Parliament

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 who changed his name from Wigram to Fitzwygram, Sir James Wigram, a judge, Octavius Wigram

Octavius Wigram

Octavius Wigram was an English business man and ship owner in the City of London, a member of Lloyds and Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation.-Life:...

, Joseph Cotton Wigram, Bishop of Rochester

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, and George Wigram

George Wigram

George Vicesimus Wigram was an English biblical scholar and theologian.-Early life:He was the 20th child of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, a famous and wealthy merchant, and the 14th child of Lady Eleanor Wigram, Robert's 2nd wife...

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

In 1850 Wigram was returned to parliament as on of two representatives for Cambridge University

Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency)

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, a seat he held until 1859. He was a regular contributor in the House of Commons

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, speaking 150 times during his nine-year stint in parliament.

Wigram married Lady Katherine Jane, daughter of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk was a Scottish peer. He was born at Saint Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. He was noteworthy as a Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony.- Early background :Douglas was the seventh son of Dunbar...

, in 1849. She died in September 1863. Wigram died in September 1889, aged 85.