Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram GCB, GCVO, CSI, PC (July 5, 1873-September 3, 1960), was a British soldier and court official. He was Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1931 to 1936.
Wigram was the son of Herbert Wigram. His grandfather Reverend William Pitt Wigram was the ninth and youngest son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, a prominent merchant. He was educated at Winchester College (of which he later became a Fellow), and the Royal Mil...
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Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram GCB, GCVO, CSI, PC (July 5, 1873-September 3, 1960), was a British soldier and court official. He was Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1931 to 1936.
Wigram was the son of Herbert Wigram. His grandfather Reverend William Pitt Wigram was the ninth and youngest son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, a prominent merchant. He was educated at Winchester College (of which he later became a Fellow), and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and served in the Royal Artillery between 1893 and 1897 and in the Indian Army from 1897.
In 1897 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 was Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India Lord Curzon, an office he had already filled in 1895 (under the Earl of Elgin) and also served in 1900 with Kitchener's Horse in the Second Boer War, where he was mentioned in despatches.
Between 1905 and 1906 Wigram served...
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