About Henry Lewis Wickham
Lived 1789 – 1864 (aged 75). Henry Lewis Wickham was a British politician.
Henry Lewis Wickham (19 May 1789 – 27 October 1864) was Receiver General of Gibraltar, Chairman of the Boards of stamps and taxes (1838–1848), and principal private secretary to Lord Althorp when Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1817. With his cousin, John Antony Cramer, he published a A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps (1820).
Born in 1789, he was the only son of the spymaster, William Wickham. Wickham died in Mayfair in 1864.
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Receiver General of Gibraltar
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Henry Lewis Wickham was born on 19 May 1789 in Binsted.
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Henry Lewis Wickham died on 27 October 1864 in Mayfair.
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Henry Lewis Wickham was a politician.
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Henry Lewis Wickham was British.
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