Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . ^^ • i794>on the death of his father, succeeded to the family estates. Hemarried, in 1802, Alice Wilkinson, of Thorpe, in Yorkshire, adescendant on the maternal side of the Fenwicks of Stanton, andthe Erringtons of Beaufront. His mother was a daughter of ^^illiamOrd, of Fenham, so that by birth and marriage he was related to 284 CHARLES WILLIAM BIGGE. some of the principal families in the county. In the year of hisunion to Alice Wilkinson, he was appointed High Sheriff ofNorthumberland. A few years later, having purchased the estateof the Earl of Carlisle
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . ^^ • i794>on the death of his father, succeeded to the family estates. Hemarried, in 1802, Alice Wilkinson, of Thorpe, in Yorkshire, adescendant on the maternal side of the Fenwicks of Stanton, andthe Erringtons of Beaufront. His mother was a daughter of ^^illiamOrd, of Fenham, so that by birth and marriage he was related to 284 CHARLES WILLIAM BIGGE. some of the principal families in the county. In the year of hisunion to Alice Wilkinson, he was appointed High Sheriff ofNorthumberland. A few years later, having purchased the estateof the Earl of Carlisle and other property in Longhorsley parish,he erected the family mansion, which, taking its name from therivulet adjoining, is known as Linden House. Thither, from theold family seat at Benton, he removed in 1814, and there heafterwards resided. While still a young man, Mr. Bigge interested himself in thepublic life of the county and the social progress of the town ofNewcastle. At the age of twenty-five he obtained the lieutenant-. colonelcy of the second battalion of the Northumberland Militia, andbeing about the same time honoured with the commission of thepeace, he became known as a punctual and painstaking countymagistrate; later in life he was elected chairman of Quarter-sessions. In the town he made himself specially useful, and sparedneither time nor means to promote the welfare of its people. Hehelped to establish the Racket Court, adjoining the AssemblyRooms, and was one of the trustees of that place of the necessity arose for erecting a library for the NewcastleLiterary and Philosophical Society he was one of the few public-spirited gentlemen who purchased, upon their own responsibility, the CHARLES WILLIAM BIGGE. 285 ground on which the present building stands, and was an activemember of the committee to which the successful issue of the under-taking was entrusted. His interest in the institution never abated;it was so marked, and so highly appreciat
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