Charles Bigg Wither or Charles Bigg-Wither (27 April 1822 – 28 June 1894) was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council for a short period in 1863. Wither was born in 1822 at Manydown Park, a manor in Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England. His father was Harris Bigg-Wither (1781–1838), who was Lord of the Manor at Manydown from 1813 to 1833 and is famous for having proposed to Jane Austen. The engineer and writer Thomas Plantagenet Bigg-Wither, a son of his eldest brother Lovelace Bigg-Wither (1805–1874), was his nephew. The Lords of the Manor at Manydown were initially from the Wither family. When William Wither V (1733–1789) died, he had no heir, and a cousin with the surname Bigg — the Reverend Lovelace Bigg (1741–1813) — became his successor. He and his sons took on the surname