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for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Wigram" Clive Wigram Hand Signed TLS Dated 1934. There is water damage to the document as shown and the offer price has been adjusted to reflect This.
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Clive
Wigram, 1st Baron July 1873 – 3 September 1960)
was a British
Indian Army officer and courtier. He was Private Secretary to the Sovereign from
1931 to 1936. Wigram was the son of Herbert Wigram. His grandfather the
Reverend William Pitt Wigram was the ninth and youngest son of Sir Robert
Wigram, 1st Baronet, who was a prominent merchant. Clive was
educated at Winchester
College, of which he later became a Fellow. After
Winchester, he attended the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich. After passing out from the Royal
Military Academy in 1893, Wigram was commissioned a second lieutenant on 4
October. Wigram
served in the Royal
Artillery between 1893 and 1897 and in the British
Indian Army from 1897. He was promoted to lieutenant on 22
September 1897 (with rank from 4 October 1896). Wigram
joined the 18th (King George's Own) Bengal Lancers, and served on the Tirah Expedition in
the North West
Frontier from 1897 to 1898. From 1899 to 1904 he of
India Lord Curzon, an office he
had already filled in 1895 (under the Earl of Elgin).
He resigned (temporary) in January 1900 to serve with Kitchener's
Horse in the Second Boer War, for which
he was mentioned in
despatches. He was promoted to captain on 4 October 1902. Between
1905 and 1906 Wigram served as Assistant Chief of
Staff to the Prince of Wales in
India. On 19 March
1906, he was promoted to the brevet rank of major and was
appointed Equerry to the Prince
of Wales, an office he held until the Prince became King in 1910. Promoted to
the substantive rank of major on 4 October 1911, while in
India he played first-class
cricket for the Europeans
club. Wigram then served as Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry
to the King from 1910 to 1931. He was promoted to the brevet rank of lieutenant
colonel on 3 June 1915. In 1915 he
was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and later to brevet colonel. In 1919 he was
promoted to colonel. In 1931 Wigram was promoted to Private Secretary to the Sovereign and
held office until he retired in 1936. He also
served as Keeper of the
Archives from 1931 to 1945, as an Extra
Equerry from 1931 until his death, as a Permanent Lord in Waiting from
1936 to 1960 and Deputy Constable of Windsor Castle from
1936 to 1945. Apart from his careers in the Army and at court he was also a
Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society and of the Zoological
Society of London, President of Westminster
Hospital and Governor He was the first president of
the Gloucestershire Boy Scouts
Wigram
was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath 1918, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in
1933. He also
became a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in
1903, a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in
1915, a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1928 and
a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal
Victorian Order in 1932 and made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in
1911. He was
sworn of the Privy Council in 1932 and in 1935 he
was raised to the peerage as Baron
Wigram, of Clewer in the County of Berkshire. He was
further honoured in 1937 when he received the Royal Victorian
Chain. He also
received the Royal Household Long and Faithful
Service Medal with 30 year service bar for His service to the
Royal Family.
