Baron Wigram, of Clewer in the County of Berkshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1935 for the soldier and court official Sir Clive Wigram

Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram

Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram GCB, GCVO, CSI, PC , was a British soldier and court official. He was Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1931 to 1936....

, Private Secretary to King George V

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 from 1931 to 1936. He was the grandson of Reverend William Pitt Wigram, ninth and youngest son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, of Walthamstow (see Wigram Baronets

Wigram Baronets

The Wigram Baronetcy, of Walthamstow House in the County of Essex, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 October 1805 for Robert Wigram. He was a successful merchant and also represented Fowey and Wexford Borough in the House of Commons. The second Baronet also...

 for earlier history of the family). the title is held by his only son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1960. As a descendant of the first Wigram Baronet of Walthamstow he is also in remainder to this title.

The first Baron's great-grandson, Captain Charles Malet of the Coldstream Guards

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, served as Assistant Equerry

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 to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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 in 2008. Captain Malet was commissioned in 2005 and has served in Afghanistan.

Barons Wigram (1935)

• Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram
  Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram
  Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram GCB, GCVO, CSI, PC , was a British soldier and court official. He was Private Secretary to the Sovereign from 1931 to 1936....
  
   (1873–1960)
• (George) Neville Clive Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram (b. 1915)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son, Major the Hon. Andrew Francis Clive Wigram (b. 1949).