The family name Wigmore has been established since the middle ages. Records dating back to 1317 suggest there was a contingency of Wigmore's in the county of Oxfordshire. This was a regular term throughout the Anglo-Saxon period in Northern England, but now the name is fairly widespread around the UK. The surname went global in the fifteenth and sixteenth century with the expansion of the British empire and the setting up of colonies abroad.
In the UK alone there are 96000 people with the surname Wigmore. Leicestershire currently holds the highest density of people with the last name Wigmore. A late 20th century Wigmore was noted as a keen drinker after police allegedly escorted him out of no less than 8 pubs in a single evening. In 1912 a man called Rob Wigmore was sent to prison for attacking another man.
Some of the more famous Wigmore's are: