The Wiggin Baronetcy, of Metchley Grange in Harborne in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 June 1892 for Henry Wiggin

Sir Henry Wiggin, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet was a metals manufacturer and Liberal politician....

. He was the founder of Henry Wiggin and Co Ltd, manufacturers of specialty metal products, and also represented Staffordshire East (as a Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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) and Handsworth (as a Liberal Unionist) in the House of Commons

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. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Staffordshire

High Sheriff of Staffordshire

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 in 1896. The third Baronet was a Colonel

Colonel

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 in the Army and served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire

High Sheriff of Warwickshire

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 in 1942. The fourth Baronet was High Sheriff of Warwickshire from 1975 to 1976 and a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 of the county in 1985.

The family seat is Honington Hall

Honington Hall

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, near Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire

Warwickshire

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.

Wiggin Baronets, of Metchley Grange (1892)

• Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Wiggin, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet was a metals manufacturer and Liberal politician....
  
   (1824-1905)
• Sir Henry Arthur Wiggin, 2nd Baronet (1852-1917)
• Sir Charles Richard Henry Wiggin, 3rd Baronet (1885-1972)
• Sir John Henry Wiggin, 4th Baronet (1921-1992)
• Sir Charles Rupert John Wiggin, 5th Baronet (b. 1949)

Other members of the Wiggin family

The Conservative

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 politician Sir Jerry Wiggin

Jerry Wiggin

Sir Alfred William Wiggin, known as Jerry Wiggin, is a British Conservative Party politician.-Education:Born in Worcestershire, in the West of England, Jerry Wiggin was educated at Eton College, an independent school for boys in the town of Eton in Berkshire, in Southern England, followed by...

 is the son of Colonel Sir William Henry Wiggin (1888-1951), son of Alfred Harold Wiggin, fourth son of the first Baronet. His son is the Conservative politician Bill Wiggin

Bill Wiggin

William David Wiggin is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament and a former Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries. He held the seat of Leominster from the 2001 election until the 2010 election, when the seat of Leominster was abolished...

. Edgar Askin Wiggin (1867-1939), fifth son of the first Baronet, was a Brigadier-General in the Army.