Henry Wigley and his wife Mary, daughter of Edward Ludlam, alderman of Leicester.
[3] The independent freemen of Worcester supported him as a respectable local man, and guaranteed his expenses.
He repeatedly opposed the government's tax measures, in line with the wishes of his middle-class constituents.
His friends thought the defeat was "effected by prejudices as groundless and unfounded as derogatory to the general character of the inhabitants of this city".
[9] As his father-in-law had done, Wigley adopted the additional name Meysey, by Act of Parliament on 15 June 1811.