Alfred Sydney Wigan (24 March 1814[note 1] â€" 29 November 1878) was
an English actor-manager who took part in the first Royal Command
Performance before Queen Victoria on 28 December 1848.Born at
Blackheath to James Wigan, a teacher of languages and Secretary of the
Dramatic Authors' Society, the actor and playwright Horace Wigan was
his younger brother. Little is known of Wigan's early career, but it
is believed he toured for a period as a singer. Using his middle name,
he acted as Sidney or Sydney Wigan at the Lyceum Theatre in 1834, and
1835 he appeared with Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett at the Queen's Theatre.
He then appeared under the name of Sidney Wigan with John Braham at
the newly built St James's Theatre, creating the role of John Johnson
in The Strange Gentleman by Charles Dickens. With Lucia Elizabeth
Vestris he appeared from 1839 to 1844 at Covent Garden, playing the
original Sir Otto of Steinberg in Love by James Sheridan Knowles. On 5
August 1839 he married the actress Leonora Pincott, who afterwards
would be billed as Mrs Alfred Wigan.At the Royal Strand Theatre he
impersonated W. C. Macready as Iago in a parody of Othello. Next, he
acted at the Lyceum Theatre with husband and wife actors Robert and
Mary Anne Keeley. In 1847 Wigan joined the company of Benjamin
Nottingham Webster at the Haymarket Theatre, for whom he played Sir
Benjamin Backbite in Sheridan's The School for Scandal. For Webster he
created the roles of Osborne in Westland Marston's The Heart and the
World and Hector Mauléon in Webster's own play The Roused Lion. Alfred Wigan Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter