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Wigan, John, 1695-1739
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1695-1739
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WIGAN, JOHN, son of William Wigan (qv); bapt. 31 Jan 1694/5; adm.; QS (Capt. ) 1710; got into serious trouble with George Tollet (qv), the Under Master, but at the intercession of Bishop Trelawny was “admitted again” by the Dean (Atterbury, Correspondence, ii, 6); elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1714, matr. 15 Jun 1714, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1714 – May 1727, Faculty Student 25 May 1727 – void by marriage 25 Apr 1739; BA 6 Feb 1718/9; MA 22 Mar 1720/1; MB and MD 1727; travelling tutor on European Continent with Stephen Fox 1723-5 (in Italy 1724-5); Principal, New Inn Hall, Oxford 3 Oct 1726 – summer 1732; FRCP 12 Apr 1732; Physician to Westminster Hospital 1733-7; went to Jamaica as Physician and Secretary to Edward Trelawny (qv), Governor of Jamaica, 1738; translated Longinus, De Curandis Febribus Continuis Liber, 1718, edited Aretaeus, 1723, and edited the collected works of John Freind (qv), 1732; m. 1739 Mary, widow of Philip Wheeler, Jamaica, and dau. of John Doace, Jamaica, planter; d. in Jamaica 5 Dec 1739. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.