Early Life
Wegg-Prosser was born Francis Richard Haggitt, the only son of Rev. Prebendary Francis Haggit, rector of Nuneham Courtenay Oxfordshire. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford from where he graduated with a Mathematics degree in 1845.
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