Collection GB 0064 WIG - Wigram, Sir Robert, 1st Bt. (1744-1830)

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GB 0064 WIG

Titre

Wigram, Sir Robert, 1st Bt. (1744-1830)

Date(s)

  • 1765-1865 (Création/Production)

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Collection

Étendue matérielle et support

1 box, 2 vols

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Notice biographique

Wigram began his career with the East India Company as a surgeon. He contracted an illness, however, which affected his eyesight so that he could no longer practise as a surgeon nor could he go to sea again. He then set himself up as a drug merchant. In 1788 he bought the General Goddard and then the True Briton, which was built in Wells' Yard, Deptford in 1790. Wigram built up the business and acquired a large interest in the Blackwall Yard and in 1810 became Chairman of the new East India Dock Company. He retired in 1819 and sold the yard to two of his sons, Money and Henry Loftus Wigram, and to George Green.

Histoire archivistique

GB 0064 WIG 1765-1865 Collection 1 box, 2 vols Wigram , Sir , Robert , 1744-1830 , Knight , shipbuilder

Wigram began his career with the East India Company as a surgeon. He contracted an illness, however, which affected his eyesight so that he could no longer practise as a surgeon nor could he go to sea again. He then set himself up as a drug merchant. In 1788 he bought the General Goddard and then the True Briton, which was built in Wells' Yard, Deptford in 1790. Wigram built up the business and acquired a large interest in the Blackwall Yard and in 1810 became Chairman of the new East India Dock Company. He retired in 1819 and sold the yard to two of his sons, Money and Henry Loftus Wigram, and to George Green.

The papers were presented in 1961 by the Reverend Sir Clifford Wigram.

Papers of Sir Robert Wigram consisting of two business ledgers, 1810 to 1865, and family legal documents, 1765 to 1826.

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English

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

There are further papers relating to Wigram in the Green collection of documents concerning Blackwall Yard.

Edited by Sarah Drewery, Oct 2011.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

The papers were presented in 1961 by the Reverend Sir Clifford Wigram.

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Portée et contenu

Papers of Sir Robert Wigram consisting of two business ledgers, 1810 to 1865, and family legal documents, 1765 to 1826.

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Langue des documents

  • anglais

Écriture des documents

  • latin

Notes de langue et graphie

English

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

There are further papers relating to Wigram in the Green collection of documents concerning Blackwall Yard.

Instruments de recherche

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

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National Maritime Museum

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Dates de production, de révision, de suppression

Langue(s)

  • anglais

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