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Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet DL (14 February 1824 – 12 November 1905) was a metals manufacturer and Liberal (and later Liberal Unionist Party) politician. Wiggin was born at Cheadle, Staffordshire, the son of William Wiggin of Cheadle. He owned a nickel and cobalt refining and manufacturing business. In 1870 he took over Evans & Askin, founded by Brooke Evans, which became Henry Wiggin & Co., manufacturers of speciality metal products.〔(Winters online )〕 He was also a Director of the Midland Railway, the South Staffordshire Water Works Co., the Birmingham Joint Stock Bank, and Muntz's Metal Co. He was a governor of King Edward's School, Birmingham, J.P. for Worcestershire and Birmingham, and Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire.〔(Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886 )〕 In 1880 Wiggin was elected Member of Parliament for East Staffordshire and held the seat until the reorganisation of 1885. He was then elected MP for Handsworth and held the seat until 1892. Wiggin became a baronet on 17 June 1892. Wiggin died at the age of 81. Wiggin married Mary Elizabeth Malins 11 June 1851, and lived at Metchley Grange, Harborne, Birmingham. His son Henry Arthur Wiggin succeeded to the baronetcy. A portrait of Wiggin, in oil, hangs in the Marriot Hotel in central Birmingham. For at least two decades the sitter's identity was lost, but was re-identified in 2014. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Wiggin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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