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Eleanor Wigram

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The Walthamstow Female Benefit Society was her idea in 1815 and she became the patron. Via the church she was able to gather financial support of a guinea a year from the richer parishioners. This allowed others to pay a shilling a month and in return they were able to enjoy free medical assistance
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Her second husband was Robert Wigram. He already had six children and together they would have seventeen more. Despite this number of pregnancies Eleanor became a principal adviser to her husband concerning his investments and they did well. Her husband said, "I never did undertake any business of
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She first married Captain Agnew. Her second husband had married Catherine Broadhurst and they had six children. Following Catherine's death, in 1787, he married Eleanor. They had thirteen sons and four daughters. His children included:
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Eleanor was involved with local charities and the church in Warthamstow. In 1807 there was a workhouse and endowed grammar schools, but she created an Anglican school for a dozen children. The teacher of that school was trained in the
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where the cleverer students were encouraged to become teachers or helpers for less able students. In 1818 she suggested to several schools that they combine their resources to create Walthamstow's first
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Wigram was born in 1767. Her mother was Eleanor (born Wyatt) and her father was John Watts and he was the secretary to the
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Their son, Ely Duodecimus Wigram (1801–69), was a lt. colonel in the Coldstream Guards and compiled a scrapbook of the
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and its composition is thought to reflect the contribution she had made towards her husband's success.
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moment without consultation with my wife, and I can truly say it has much promoted my fortune."
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They had a daughter, also named Eleanor, who married H.N. Heathcote of Shephailbury in 1814.
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and advice. 1824 saw her start a local group for women to support the
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Their son, Reverend William Pitt Wigram, was the grandfather of
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who was knighted that year. Her portrait was exhibited in the
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Index


Charles Shirreff
Walthamstow House
Great Britain
Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet
British
Walthamstow
victualling

Thomas Lawrence
Thomas Lawrence
Royal Academy
Monitorial System
National school
Church Missionary Society
Walthamstow House
now a school

Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet
James Wigram
Octavius Wigram
Joseph Cotton Wigram
Loftus Wigram
George Wigram
Crimean war
Mary Seacole
Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram
Ralph Wigram

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