Hon. Thomas Henry Wigley was born in England in 1825, and in 1838 came out to South Australia, where he completed his course of primary education, and afterwards became a squatter. Removing to Canterbury in 1853, he acquired “Balmoral” station, and subsequently was engaged in sheep-farming in South Canterbury for twenty years. Mr. Wigley was a member of the Provincial Council of Nelson, and was afterwards called to the Upper House, in which he served for a period of over twenty years. In 1863 Mr. Wigley married a sister of the late Mr. W. S. Moorhouse, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, and by this marriage had a son, Mr. W. C. H. Wlgley, LL.B. His second wife was Miss Lysaght, of Hawera, whom he married in 1880, and by whom he had four children. Mr. Wigley died in 1805.