He was mainly associated with Hampshire sides and he made 11 known appearances in first-class matches from 1819 to 1845.[2]
Travels
Portrait of Richard Wood, British consul in Damascus, drawn by Vigne in 1844
In 1831 Vigne left England for Persia, and then travelled to India. He spent the next seven years travelling in north west India and Central Asia.[1] Between 1835 and 1838 he travelled extensively in Kashmir and Ladakh and was the first European known to have visited Baltistan. In the light of his ease in obtaining a permit to travel to Kashmir, despite his unofficial status, the timing and his repeated extensive journeys north of Kashmir, reaching as far as Skardu and the Saltoro Pass, it has been suggested that he may have been a spy involved in the Great Game.[3]
After 1852 Vigne travelled in Mexico, Nicaragua, the West Indies and the United States. He published several books describing his travels.[1]
In 1841, the urial, a wild sheep living in Central and Southern Asia, was given the scientific nameOvis vignei in his honour.[5] During his 1892 expedition to the Karakoram, Conway named several previously unvisited glaciers which he encountered, one of those was the Vigne Glacier.[6][7]
^Hardgrave, R. L. (1996). An Early Portrayal of the Sikhs: Two 18th Century Etchings by Baltazard Solvyns. International Journal of Punjab Studies, 3(2), 213-27. Accessed via: https://www.laits.utexas.edu/solvyns-project/sikhs.html
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