Thomas Ashby Wickham

Thomas Ashby Wickham (1857-1939) was the son of Littleton Waller Tazwell Wickham (1821-1909) and Elizabeth Peyre Ashby (1824-1859). Thomas Ashby Wickham practiced law in Washington Territory in the 1880s and 1890s. In 1897, he returned to Virginia and married his cousin Julia Wickham Porcher (1860-1933), daughter of Virginia Leigh (1835-1866) and Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher (1824-1895).

Wickham was appointed judge in the Henrico County court and served in the Virginia Senate. Towards the end of his life, he sat for his portrait by Richmond artist David Silvette. Painted the year after he was widowed, it descended in the family until 1996.