William Wigginton

He published proposals for working-class housing, and designed several Gothic Revival churches in London, often featuring polychrome brickwork.

[3] His plans for working class housing, as exhibited at a bookseller's in Derby in 1850, envisaged a block built around three sides of a quadrangle, with three storeys, each accommodating fifteen families.

Access to the upper floors was to be via two stone staircases, leading to open balconies which were carried around the quadrangle at each level.

[12] Wigginton was a freemason, and a member of the Volunteer Corps,[1] receiving a commission as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Tower Hamlets Artillery, which he resigned on 29 October 1873.

[13] He died at his home, Buckhurst, Forest Hill, on 8 January 1890 and was buried in the family vault at Dudley.