Sir Frederick Wigan, 1st Baronet

Sir Frederick Wigan, 1st Baronet, J.P., D.L (4 October 1827 – 2 March 1907)[3] of Clare Lawn in Mortlake, Surrey and of Purland Chase in Ross, Herefordshire, was a hops merchant based at Southwark, in Surrey, near the south end of London Bridge.

He was also a director of the North London Railway[3] and had business interests in several water supply companies[4] and in the brewers Samuel Allsopp & Sons[5] Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton[6] and Worthington and Co.[7] He was also a collector of orchids.

He married Mary Harriet Blunt at Mortlake in April 1857[9] and the couple had ten children.

[12] Wigan became a member of the St Saviour's Collegiate Church restoration committee 1890, which oversaw the rebuilding of the nave by the architect, Arthur Blomfield.

[13] He donated two carved oak screens, designed by Blomfield,[14] as well as two windows by Charles Eamer Kempe to the church.