Career
Wigram joined the Foreign Office after graduation. He served as Temporary Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. from 1916 to 1919, as Third Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1919 to 1920, as Second Secretary at the Foreign Office from1920 to 1921, as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Paris from 1924 to 1933 and as Counsellor at the Foreign Office and head of the Central Department from 1934 to 1936. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1933.
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