Monument to Sir Frederick Wigan, 1st Baronet in Southwark Cathedral, showing arms of Wigan: Vair, on a pile or a mount in base vert thereon a mountain ash tree proper[1][2]

Sir Frederick Wigan, 1st Baronet, J.P., D.L (4 October 1827 – 2 March 1907)[3] of Clare Lawn in Mortlake, Surrey and of Purland Chase in Ross, Herefordshire, was a hops merchant based at Southwark, in Surrey, near the south end of London Bridge. He was also a director of the North London Railway[3] and had business interests in several water supply companies[4] and in the brewers Samuel Allsopp & Sons[5] Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton[6] and Worthington and Co.[7] He was also a collector of orchids.[8]

Wigan was born in East Malling, Kent, the son of a hop merchant. He married Mary Harriet Blunt at Mortlake in April 1857[9] and the couple had ten children.[3] He was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey in 1894[10] and knighted that year.[11] In 1898, he was made a baronet.[12]

Wigan became a member of the St Saviour's Collegiate Church restoration committee 1890, which oversaw the rebuilding of the nave by the architect, Arthur Blomfield.[13] He donated two carved oak screens, designed by Blomfield,[14] as well as two windows by Charles Eamer Kempe to the church.[15] In 1905, the building became Southwark Cathedral and Wigan was appointed Treasurer of the chapter.[3] The year after his death, a sculpted bust was installed in the south transept.[16] A chalice and paten were presented to the cathedral in Wigan's memory by his niece in 1910.[17]

Sir Frederick was succeeded as baronet by his son, Frederick William Wigan, who died at his home, Windlesham Court, on 6 April 1907, just over a month later.[18]

References

  1. ↑ crest:On a mount Vert a mountain ash tree surmounted by a rainbow all Proper. motto: Carpe Diem
  2. ↑ Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage, and knightage, Privy Council, and order of preference,1949
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Obituary". The Times. No. 38271. London. 4 March 1907. p. 7.
  4. ↑ "The Odessa Waterworks Company". Daily Telegraph. No. 6237. 25 March 1872. p. 9.
  5. ↑ "Samuel Allsopp and Sons (Limited)". Daily Telegraph. No. 9890. 3 February 1887. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton". Daily Telegraph. No. 10192. 21 January 1888. p. 4.
  7. ↑ "Worthington and Co". Daily Telegraph. No. 10500. 15 January 1889. p. 1.
  8. ↑ "County jottings". Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser. No. 1052. 1 June 1907. p. 4.
  9. ↑ "Births, marriages and deaths". The Observer. 4 May 1857. p. 4. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "Surrey notes". Surrey Mirror. No. 779. 7 March 1894. p. 5.
  11. ↑ "News in brief". The Times. No. 34324. London. 24 July 1894. p. 10.
  12. ↑ "The Queen's levee". Surrey Times and County Express. No. 2453. 27 May 1898. p. 7.
  13. ↑ "St Saviour's '(Southwark) Collegiate Church Restoration Fund". Morning Post. No. 36732. 8 March 1890. p. 1.
  14. ↑ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence". The Guardian. No. 2791. 31 May 1899. p. 6.
  15. ↑ "Reopening of St Saviour's, Southwark". The Guardian. No. 2672. 17 February 1897. p. 34.
  16. ↑ "London day by day". Daily Telegraph. No. 19523. 11 April 1908. p. 12.
  17. ↑ "London day by day". Daily Telegraph. No. 17297. 1 October 1910. p. 12.
  18. ↑ "Obituary". The Times. No. 38302. London. 9 April 1907. p. 10.
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