Charles Wiggin
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Career
Charles Douglas Wiggin was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during World War II, then joined the Diplomatic Service in 1946. Between posts at the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO) he served at the embassies in Santiago, Stockholm, Tehran and Washington, D.C. He was private secretary to Edward Heath, who was Lord Privy Seal and deputy Foreign Secretary, 1961–63 and briefly to Lord Carrington in 1963. He then attended the Imperial Defence College, served again at Tehran and as head of department at the FCO, and finally as ambassador to Spain 1974–77.[1]
Wiggin was appointed CMG in 1968[2] and knighted KCMG during his posting to Spain.[3]
Family
In 1948 Wiggin married Marie Thérèse Elizabeth Leche in Santiago, Chile, where her father, Sir John Leche, was British ambassador at the time. They had three daughters.
Through his mother, Carmen Fernandez Vallin y Parrella, Wiggin inherited the title of Marqués de Muros[4] (Muros de Nalón, Asturias, Spain, where he was born).
Honours and awards
- On 3 March 1944 Acting Flight Lieutenant Charles Douglas Wiggin of No. 44 Squadron RAFTemplate:Efn was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross:
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Throughout his tour of operations, which includes 8 attacks on Berlin, this officer has set a fine example of skill, courage and determination. During a recent attack on the German capital his aircraft was badly damaged in a fight with 2 enemy aircraft. Nevertheless, Flight Lieutenant Wiggin pressed home his bombing attack with great resolution and afterwards flew the damaged bomber to base where he executed a perfect crash landing, although one of his landing wheelshad been shot away. He is a fine leader whose example has imbued his crew with great confidence.
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References
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- WIGGIN, Sir Charles (Douglas), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
- Sir Charles Wiggin (obituary), The Times, London, 11 March 1977, page 20
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- ↑ The London Gazette, 19 November 1974
- ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 8 June 1968
- ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 12 June 1976
- ↑ Boletín Oficial del Estado, 20 May 1972 (in Spanish)
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- 1922 births
- Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies
- 1977 deaths
- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- British expatriates in the United States
- British expatriates in Sweden
- British expatriates in Chile
- British expatriates in Iran
- Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Spain
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
- Recipients of the Air Force Cross (United Kingdom)
- Marquesses of Spain
- Royal Air Force officers
- Royal Air Force pilots of World War II
- British World War II bomber pilots