WIGAN, WILLIAM, son of Humphrey Wigan, Gray’s Inn Lane, London, alehouse keeper, and Barbara --- (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 27 Aug 1640 (IGI); adm. ; in school lists 1656, last three quarters; KS 1656, Christmas quarter; gave evidence before the Governors in the Busby and Bagshaw dispute 1657; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1658, matr. 21 Jul 1658, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 1669); BA 22 Mar 1661/2; MA 1664 (incorp. Cambridge 1681); ordained; Chaplain to Humphrey Henchman (qv), Bishop of London; Rector of Wennington, Essex 1671-4; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 12 Mar 1671/2; Vicar of Kensington, Middlesex, from 31 Aug 1672; Rector of Orsett, Essex, from 1675; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Mary by 1691 (Miege 1691)); m. 16 Feb 1687 Mary Sondes, Orsett, Essex; d. 22 Apr 1700.
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- https://collections.westminster.org.uk/index.php/college-1