KING’S PRIVATE SECRETARY
■ SIR C. WIGRAM APPOINTED. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. Colonel Sir Clive Wigram, Assistant Private Secretary to the King, has been appointed Private Secretary to His Majesty in succession to the late Lord Starafordham. Colonel Sir Clive Wigram has been Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry to the King since 1910. Ho was born in 1873, a son of the late Mr Herbert Wigram, of the Madras Civil Service. He was married in 1912 to Nora, eldest daughter of Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain. Educated at Winchester, Sir Clive held his first commission in the Royal Artillery, 1893. He was Aide-de camp to Lord Elgin, who was Viceroy of India, in 189,1. He exchanged to the 18th Lancers, Indian Army, 1897; served on the north-west frontier of India, 1897 to 1898; was Aide-de-camp to Lord Curzon when the latter was Viceroy of India, 1899 to 1904; served in South Africa; and was assistant to the Chief of Staff, India, 1905-6. Ho retired from the Army in 1923 and was knighted in 1928.
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Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 5
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