PIGEON, Richard Hotham. b. 22 May 1789; educ. Dr. Willett’s academy Brixton; apprentice to Fynmore and Palmer, wholesale druggists 31 Throgmorton st. London 1805, became a partner 1812; a member of the Wholesale druggists’ club; treasurer of Pharmaceutical soc. from its commencement 1841 to 1850; treasurer of Christ’s hospital 1835 when he made great improvements in the administration, his portrait by J. P. Knight, R.A. presented to the hospital in 1845. d. London 10 June 1851. Pharmaceutical Journal xi 46–7 (1852); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 212.
PIGOT, David Richard (eld. son of David Pigot, M.D. of Kilworth, co. Cork, physician). b. 1796; educ. Fermoy and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1870; in the office of a conveyancer 1819–26; called to Irish bar 1826; K.C. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1839; solicitor general for Ireland 11 Feb. 1839, attorney general 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sept. 1841; M.P. Clonmel 1839–46; P.C. Ireland 1840; one of the visitors of Maynooth college 1845; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 1 Sept. 1846 to death; a violin player. d. 8 Merrion sq. Dublin 22 Dec. 1873. bur. Kilworth. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 383–5; Dublin univ. mag. Feb. 1874 pp. 176–9 portrait.
PIGOTT, Edward Frederick Smyth (3 son of John Hugh Smyth Pigott of Brockley hall, Somerset). b. Somerset 1824; educ. Eton and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1850; lived for sometime in France; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; took an active part in The Leader, No. 1 March 30 1850, which as The Saturday analyst and leader came to an end 24 Nov. 1860, acted as G. H. Lewes’s deputy in dealing with theatrical and musical matters in The Leader and writing under pseudonym of Le Chat Huant from 19 July 1851; a member of the staff of the Daily News; examiner of plays in lord chamberlain’s department 25 Aug. 1874 to death; wrote for the Saturday review. d. 150 Oxford st. London 23 Feb. 1895, cremated at Woking 27 Feb. Vanity Fair 11 Jany. 1890 p. 33 portrait; Fortnightly Review Feb. 1896 p. 222.
PIGOT, Elizabeth Bridget (dau. of J. Pigot, M.D. of Derby). b. probably in Derbyshire 1783; lived at Southwell, Northampton nearly all her life, where she made the acquaintance of lord Byron about 1803; corresponded with him 1804–11; Byron addressed to her his poem beginning ‘Eliza what fools are the Mussulman sect’ 1806; much of her correspondence with Byron is printed in T. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1847) 32, 52–8, 731; a manuscript parody by her entitled ‘The wonderful history of Lord Byron and his dog Bosen’ was sold by a London bookseller to professor Kolbing of Breslau 1892. d. Easthorpe, Southwell 11 Dec. 1866. Poetical works of lord Byron (1859) 400; Russell’s Memoirs of T. Moore v 249 (1854).
PIGOTT, Francis (1 son of Paynton Pigott, who in 1835 took the name of Stainsby Conant 1780–1862). b. Trunkwell house, Berkshire 1809; educ. Eton, matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 7 March 1826; lieut. Hants yeomanry cavalry 31 Dec. 1838, resigned 5 July 1861; contested Winchester 29 June 1841; M.P. Reading 1847–60; lieut. governor of Isle of Man Oct. 1860 to death, entered Douglas 14 Feb. 1861. d. Heckfield Heath, near Winchester 21 Jany. 1863. Illustrated Times 23 Feb. 1861 p. 111, view of his reception at Douglas.
PIGOTT, George Granado Graham Foster (1 son of the rev. George G. G. F. Pigott rector of Abington). b. Abington Pigotts, Cambs. 16 May 1835; educ. Maryborough 1843–51; in Cambridge militia 1854; ensign 48 foot April 1855, present at fall of Sebastopol, served in the Indian mutiny, retired Nov. 1859; made meteorological observations at Abington; F.R.A.S. 9 June 1865. d. Abington 14 May 1878. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxix 237 (1879).
PIGOTT, Sir Gillery (4 son of Paynton Pigott, who d. Sept. 1862). b. Oxford 1813; barrister M.T. 3 May 1839, went Oxford circuit; counsel to Ireland revenue department May 1854; serjeant-at-law Feb. or March 1856; received a patent of precedence 1857; M.P. Reading Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1863; recorder of Hereford Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; baron of court of exchequer 2 Oct. 1863 to death; knighted by patent 1 Nov. 1863; author with B. B. Hunter Rodwell of Reports of cases in the court of common pleas, on appeal from the decisions of the revising barristers 1844–6. d. Sherfield Hill house, Basingstoke 28 April 1875. I.L.N. 31 Oct. 1863 p. 433 portrait and lxvi 451, 571 (1875); Graphic xi 483, 486, 492 (1875) portrait.
PIGOTT, Henry de Renzy (2 son of Henry Pigott of Eagle hill, co. Galway). b. 18 May 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844; ensign 83 foot 23 July 1845, major 19 Dec. 1862; major 19 foot 30 June 1863, lieut. col. 25 Aug. 1871; lieut. col. 70 foot 14 Aug. 1872, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Indian mutiny and in the Afghan war of 1878; brevet colonel 25 Aug. 1876; commanded the regimental district of Warrington 1 April 1881 to 8 Feb. 1882, when he retired with honorary rank of M.G. d. Elkhorn, Manitoba 14 Nov. 1889.
PIGOT, Sir Hugh. Entered navy 1 May 1788; captain 8 May 1804; took possession of the island of Mariegalante 2 March 1808; commanded the squadron off Guadaloupe 1809, employed on the American station; commander-in-chief on Cork station 16 May 1844 to 1 July 1847; admiral 4 July 1853; C.B. 26 Sept. 1841, K.C.B. 10 July 1847; K.C.H. 18 June 1832. d. 96 Ebury street, London 29 July 1857. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 905–6.
PIGOT, Hugh (2 son of Creswell Pigot of Drayton, Salop). b. 1820. educ. Brasn. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Hadleigh, Suffolk 1843–63; V. of Wisbeck St. Mary 1863–9; R. of Stretham, Cambs. 1869 to death; author of The blessed life, a course of sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Hadleigh, the town, the church, and the great men born in or connected with the parish 1860, 2 ed. 1874. d. Tunbridge Wells 22 Sept. 1884.