Thomas Charles Bigge
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Thomas Charles Bigge (1739–1794) was an English landowner and banker, High Sheriff of Northumberland for 1771.[1]
Life
He was the son of William Bigge (1707–1758).[2] of Benton House, Little Benton, Northumberland. He enrolled at Christ Church, Oxford in 1757.[3]
Bigge was a member of the Roman Club founded in 1765 by Edward Gibbon.[4] In 1774 he was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Morpeth.[5] He was buried in the church of Weston, Bath, where there were memorials to two of his daughters.[3]
Family
Bigge married Jemima Ord, daughter of William Ord of Fenham—who had also served as High Sheriff of Northumberland—in 1747. They had four sons and six daughters.[6]
- The eldest son Charles (1773–1849), appointed High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1802[7]
- William Edward, who died young
- Thomas Hanway, banker, died 1824
- John (1780–1843) was called to the Bar in 1806 and in 1813 was appointed Chief Justice of Trinidad.
- A daughter, Grace Julia (died 1872), married Thomas Christopher Glyn, barrister-at-law, third son of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet.[8][9]
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