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William Wigan
d. 1700
A late 17th-century English clergyman and preacher, he is remembered for sermons shaped by the religious and public life of his time. His surviving work offers a small but vivid window into Anglican devotion in the years around 1700.
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About the author
William Wigan was an English priest who died in 1700. He served as vicar of St Mary Abbots, Kensington from 1672 until his death, and he was also chaplain in ordinary to William and Mary. During his church career he held posts connected with St Paul's Cathedral and served as rector of Orsett, Essex.
He is best known today as the author of religious writings from the late Stuart period. One of the works still associated with him is A Funeral Sermon Preach'd on the Decease of the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Cutts, delivered at Kensington Church in 1697. For audiobook listeners, that makes him a writer whose work sits close to the spoken tradition: formal, reflective, and written to be heard aloud.
Not much personal detail seems to be widely preserved online, which is common for writers and clergy of his era. Even so, the record that remains places him in an important corner of London religious life, preaching for prominent figures and serving in well-known church institutions at the end of the 17th century.