[3] 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.

He resigned (temporary) in January 1900 to serve with Kitchener's Horse in the Second Boer War,[4] for which he was mentioned in despatches.

Promoted to the substantive rank of major on 4 October 1911,[7] while in India he played first-class cricket for the Europeans club.

[1] He also served as Keeper of the Archives from 1931 to 1945,[9] as an Extra Equerry from 1931 until his death, as a Permanent Lord in Waiting from 1936 to 1960 and Deputy Constable of Windsor Castle from 1936 to 1945.

[17] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1932 and in 1935 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wigram, of Clewer in the County of Berkshire.

[19] Lord Wigram married Nora Mary, the daughter of Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, in 1912.