Loftus Wigram

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.William Courthope, Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1838), p. 605[http://thepeerage.com/p10985.htm#i109843 thepeerage.com Loftus Tottenham Wigram]

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1821, graduating B.A. (8th Wrangler) in 1825 (M.A. in 1828).{{acad|id=WGRN821LT|name=Wigram, Loftus Tottenham}} 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.[http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/greenblackwall/about.cfm nmm.ac.uk The Green Blackwall Collection] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010122454/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/greenblackwall/about.cfm |date=10 October 2007 }}

In 1850, Wigram was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Cambridge University, a seat he held until 1859.{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons1.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Caernarfon to Cambridgeshire South West |access-date=26 October 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713201725/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons1.htm |archive-date=13 July 2011 }} He was a regular contributor in the House of Commons, speaking 150 times during his nine-year stint in parliament.{{Hansard-contribs | mr-loftus-wigram | Mr Loftus Wigram }}

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.