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Portrait of Mrs Charlotte Hanway Bigge, #2391070

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Portrait of Mrs Charlotte Hanway Bigge,   #2391070
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Portrait of Mrs Charlotte Hanway Bigge, nee Charlotte Scott by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Nee Geddes 1793-1872</em></td>
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Lamenting Charles William Bigge's death in 1849, a local chronicler described him as:-
'one of the most active and useful members of the county, a bright example of an English country gentleman, well educated, intelligent, upright and straightforward in his conduct, kind and benevolent in his disposition, social in his habits and of easy access to everyone, who sought his intimacy or his aid and advice.'
This was the man who built Linden Hall in 1812, early on in his career of local politics and banking. It is thought that Charles William Bigge's immediate branch of the family were descendents of the Biggs of Essex where in 1534 a William Biggs lived in the manor of Biggs near Gosfield. The surname of 'Biggs' is first recorded in the Hundred Rolls for Essex in 1242 during the reign of Edward 1, and according to Hodgson, a certain William Bigge, Attorney of Law, came north to Newcastle in 1666, to marry Isobel Dent of Newcastle. In marriage settlement he acquired various estates around Northumberland and particularly in Newcastle. Thus were established the Northumberland Bigges, who were to become one of the county's most notable merchant and banking families.
William Bigge, who died in 1690, was Charles William Bigge's great-great-grandfather. William's grandson, also called William (1707-1758) built Benton House at Little Benton, Newcastle in 1740, on land inherited from his grandfather's marriage settlement. In 1773, on 28th October, Charles William Bigge was born at Benton ...
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#: 2949</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:19th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Nee Geddes 1793-1872</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Mrs Charlotte Hanway Bigge, </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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