Woolmore Wigram

Woolmore Wigram (29 October 1831 – 19 January 1907) was a Church of England clergyman, a campanologist and a mountain-climber.

Wigram entered Rugby School in August 1844, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1850, graduating B.A.

From 1877 to 1897 he was rural dean of Hertford, and in 1886 was made honorary canon of St Albans, where he lived from 1898 till his death, and was an active member of the chapter.

A series of articles in Church Bells was published collectively in 1871 under the title Change-ringing Disentangled and Management of Towers (2nd edition 1880).

His most memorable feat was the first successful ascent of La Dent Blanche on 18 July 1862, in the company of Thomas Stewart Kennedy, with Jean-Baptiste Croz [fr] and Josef Marie Krönig as guides (see his own account in Memoirs, 1908, pp.