Mrs Alfred Wigan
(1805-1884)

A carte-de-visite portrait of the actress professionally known as Mrs Alfred Wigan.

According to her obituary in the Times (19 April 1884): ‘Mrs Alfred Wigan, the once well-known actress, died suddenly on Thursday afternoon at her residence, Upper Norwood, in her 79th year. As Miss Leonora Pincott her name may be remembered as a clever representative of important female characters in comedies and farces at Drury Lane and other London theatres more than half a century ago: but on her marriage with Mr Alfred Wigan in 1841, her histrionic powers had a wider range for display, and her acting in popular pieces produced at the Lyceum, the Olympic, and the Queen’s Theatre, Long-acre, when these establishments were under her husband’s direction, will be fresh in the remembrance of a later generation of playgoers.’