Thomas Charles Bigge


Thomas Charles Bigge was an English landowner and banker, High Sheriff of Northumberland for 1771.

Life

He was the son of William Bigge. of Benton House, Little Benton, Northumberland. He enrolled at Christ Church, Oxford in 1757.
Bigge was a member of the Roman Club founded in 1765 by Edward Gibbon. In 1774 he was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for. He was buried in the church of Weston, Bath, where there were memorials to two of his daughters.

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.