William Rigg (politician)

William Rigg JP
Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Newtown-St Peters
In office 17 July 1894 – 11 June 1901
Preceded by	New district
Succeeded by	James Fallick
Personal details
Born	1 January 1847 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Died	3 November 1926 (aged 79) Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
Political party	Free Trade

William Rigg (1 January 1847 – 3 November 1926) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in Liverpool to joiner George Rigg and Sarah Barclay. The family moved to New South Wales around 1852, and Rigg attended Christ Church School until the age of fifteen, when he began working in the office of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company. He eventually rose to become Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, and also founded the Clyde Engineering Company. He was six times Mayor of Newtown and served as an alderman for twenty-three years. On 17 September 1873 he married Elizabeth Gregg, with whom he had six children; he later married Harriett Westbrook in England around 1884 and had a daughter. In 1894 Rigg was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Newtown-St Peters; he was generally considered a Free Trader. He held the seat until his defeat in 1901. Rigg died at Darlinghurst in 1926.^[1][2][3]

References

1. "Mr William Rigg (1847 - 1926)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
2. John Atchison, 'Rigg, William (1847–1926)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rigg-william-8212/text14369, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 10 July 2016.
3. "William Rigg (1847-1926)". Sydney's Aldermen. City of Sydney. Retrieved 10 July 2016.