Edgar Smith Wigg Edgar Smith Wigg i(A99642 works by)
Born: Established: 1818 Suffolk,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1899 Adelaide, South Australia,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1849
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Born in Suffolk in 1818, Edgar Smith Wigg was a bookseller in Warwickshire before migrating to South Australia in 1849 on the William Hyde. He began selling books and homeopathic medicines in Adelaide, so founding a business which was to become one of the oldest continuing businesses in Adelaide. Joined by his son Edward Neale Wigg in 1867, Edgar Smith Wigg's shop developed into a leading bookseller and stationer, of Rundle Street, Adelaide, with other branches in South and Western Australia, and with divisions for printing and publishing.

E. S. Wigg died in 1899.

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