Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet, (25 September 1773 – 17 December 1843), born Robert Wigram, was a Director of the Bank of England and a Tory politician.
Early life Fitzwygram was the eldest son of Lady Eleanor and Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, merchant and shipbuilder of Walthamstow.Gentleman's Magazine Obituary of Sir Robert Wigram 1830 Among his numerous brothers were Joseph Cotton Wigram, Bishop of Rochester, Loftus Wigram, George Wigram, and Octavius Wigram, prominent in the City of London as a member of Lloyd's of London and as Governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company.William Courthope, Debrett's complete peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1838), p. 605
Career Fitzwygram owned a number of South Sea whaling ships in partnership with his father.Jane M. Clayton & Charles A. Clayton, Shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775 to 1815, Hassobury, 2016, p.63. Wigram was interested in the foundation of the London Institution in 1805.Philosophical Magazine 1805
Political career He followed his father into Parliament in 1806 as Member of Parliament for Fowey. He was a Director of the Bank of England, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was knighted on 7 May 1818. In 1829 he was elected for the Wexford but was unseated on petition. He was re-elected in 1830, but was again unseated in petition in 1831. He inherited the Wigram Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1830. In 1832 by royal licence, he changed his surname to FitzWygram.Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage (online edition, accessed 28 February 2011), p. B1002: "The 1st baronet, Sir Robert Wigram, successively MP for Fowey and co. Wexford, obtained eminence as a merchant; he died 1830, having had twenty-three children. The 2nd baronet, MP for Fowey, in 1832 changed, by royal licence, his surname to FitzWygram".
Personal life
In 1812, Wigram married Selina Hayes, youngest daughter of Sir John Macnamara Hayes Bt and Anne ( White) Hayes. Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 4165.
Robert Fitzwygram Wigram (1813–1873), who inherited the baronetcy but died unmarried. Selina Frances Fitzwygram (1815–1890), who died unmarried. Eleanor Maria Fitzwygram (1816–1817), who died young. George Augustus Frederick Fitzwygram (1818–1841), who died unmarried. Augusta Catherine Fitzwygram (1819–1893), who married Sir George Baker, 3rd Baronet. Sophia Matilda Fitzwygram (1820–1824), who died young. Frederick Wellington John Fitzwygram (1823–1904), who married Angela Frances Mary Vaughan, daughter of Thomas Nugent Vaughan and a younger half-sister of George Forbes, 7th Earl of Granard, in 1882. William Harcourt Fitzwygram (1825–1832), who died young. John Fitzroy Fitzwygram (1827–1881), a Reverend who married Alice Ward, daughter of Sir Henry George Ward, in 1866. Cordelia Anne Fitzwygram (1829–1830), who died young. Loftus Adam Fitzwygram (1832–1904), who married Lady Frances Butler-Danvers, daughter of Hon. Charles Augustus Butler-Danvers and sister of John Butler, 6th Earl of Lanesborough, in 1866.
Upon his death, his eldest son Robert inherited the baronetcy but died without issue. The baronetcy then passed to Fitzwygram's third son, Frederick.
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