Modern English biography

PICKARD, ARTHUR FREDERICK (3 son of J. H. W. Pickard of Southampton). _b._ 12 April 1841; lieut. R.A. 22 June 1858, major 16 Oct. 1878 to death; served in New Zealand during wars of 1860–1 and 1863–4, V.C. 22 Sept. 1864 for gallant conduct during assault on Rangiriri 20 Nov. 1863 in rendering assistance to the wounded while under fire; C.B. 15 March 1879; equerry to prince Arthur. _d._ Cannes 1 March 1880. _bur._ Cannes 4 March. _R. W. O’Byrne’s The Victoria Cross_ (1880) 40, 71. PICKARD, BENJAMIN SPENCER (son of James Pickard, captain R.N.). _b._ 1821; sub-lieutenant R.N. 3 Nov. 1837, captain 12 Dec. 1863, retired 7 March 1875; retired R.A. 2 Aug. 1879, retired V.A. 1 July 1885; served during operations in river Plate 1845–6, and in Russian war 1854–5. _d._ 34 Blessington road, Lee, Kent 12 Aug. 1890. PICKERING, BASIL MONTAGU (only son of Wm. Pickering 1796–1854). _b._ 1835; a godson of Basil Montagu the author; employed by James Toovey the bookseller; publisher and dealer in rare books at 196 Piccadilly, London 1858 to death; published Swinburne’s Queen Mother and Rosamund 1860; Locker’s London lyrics 1862; J. H. Frere’s Works 1872; Cardinal Newman’s Miscellaneous writings 1875–7; and a facsimile reprint of the first edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost collated by B. M. Pickering 1873; author of Lord Selborne’s letter to The Times on the Public worship regulation bill and an answer by A Layman 1874. _d._ 196 Piccadilly, London 8 Feb. 1878. _Bookseller March 1878 p._ 210; _Athenæum i_ 221 (1878). PICKERING, EDWARD HAYES (eld. son of Edward Rowland Pickering). _b._ 1809; educ. Eton 1817–26, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833; assistant master Eton Jany. 1830 to death; was ordained in 1830; played at Lord’s in Harrow _v._ Eton 30 July 1824, also in 1825 and 1826; an elegant batsman; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players 1844 etc. _d._ Eton 19 May 1852. _bur._ in the school chapel. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i_ 500 (1862), _v p. xiii_ (1876); _G.M. July 1852 pp._ 97–8. PICKERING, EDWARD ROWLAND. _b._ 1778; solicitor in London in partnership with George Andree 1800, practised alone 1801–11, in partnership with George Smith 1811–32, and with George Smith and Edward Tompson at 4 Stone buildings, Lincoln’s inn 1832 to death; member of council of Incorporated law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1845–6, president 1846–7. _d._ Clapham old town, Clapham 29 Nov. 1859. PICKERING, GEORGE. _b._ Yorkshire 1794 or 1795; succeeded George Cuitt junior as a drawing-master in Chester; non-resident member of the Liverpool academy 1827, where he exhibited many water-colour pictures; drew the landscapes that are engraved by E. F. Finden in Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire 2 series 1829–31, and many of the landscapes engraved in Ormerod’s History of Cheshire 1819, and in Baines’s History of the county palatine of Lancaster 1824; an artist and teacher of drawing at Birkenhead; exhibited 4 landscapes at Suffolk st. London 1827–8. _d._ Grange Mount, Birkenhead 8 March 1857. PICKERING, PERCIVAL ANDREE (2 son of Edward Rowland Pickering 1778–1859). _b._ London 1811; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A., 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of St. John’s coll. 1833–41; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 1855 to death; went northern circuit; recorder of Pontefract March 1853 to March 1865; Q.C. July 1855; judge of Passage court at Liverpool 1867 to death; queen’s attorney and serjeant within county palatine of Lancaster 1868 to death; author of Remarks on a report of the house of commons on the publication of printed papers 1838; Remarks on treating and matters relating to the election of members of parliament 1849; An essay of friendship 1875; he also wrote in the Eton miscellany in 1827. _d._ suddenly while riding in a carriage at Dover 7 Aug. 1876. _bur._ in Kensal green cemetery. _Law Times lxi_ 301 (1876); _Solicitors’ Journal xx_ 807 (1876). PICKERING, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; apprentice to John and Arthur Arch, booksellers, Cornhill 1810–18; assistant to Longmans Jany. to June 1818; assistant to John Cuthell 4 Middle Row, Holborn June 1818 to 1820; bookseller 29½ Lincoln’s inn fields 1820–3; commenced publishing his Diamond classics printed by Charles Corrall in 24 volumes 1821–31; brought out the Greek testament 1828 and Homer’s works 1830 in diamond Greek type; adopted the Aldine emblem with the motto Aldi discip Anglus about 1830, removed to 57 Chancery Lane 1823; brought out reprints of English poets; published Basil Montagu’s Bacon, Nicolas’s Walton and the Bridgewater Treatises; had books bound in red cloth in place of red paper boards which revolutionised bookbinding about 1825; publisher at 177 Piccadilly 1842 to death; published books for S. T. Coleridge, Alexander Dyce, Joseph Hunter, J. M. Kemble, and sir Harris Nicolas; issued reprints of the various versions of the Prayer book between 1549 and 1662 in 6 vols. 1844, which are remarkably fine specimens of typography; published Catalogue of biblical, classical, and historical manuscripts and of rare and curious books 1834; the Aldine edition of the English poets in 53 vols. 1835–53, and Christian classics 12 vols. 1849; became involved in debt. _d._ 5 Wellington place, Turnham Green, Middlesex 27 April 1854, left his family destitute. _Cowtan’s_ _Memories of the British museum_ (1872) 325–6; _Willis’s Current notes_ (1855) 43; _N. and Q. 2 Feb. 1895 p._ 83. PICKERING, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, colonel 1 April 1855 to 21 July 1860, when placed on retired full pay as M.G. _d._ Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hants. 11 Feb. 1863. PICKERSGILL, _Henry Hall_ (son of the succeeding). _b._ 1812; studied abroad some years; a painter in London, afterwards in the north of England; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1834–62; his picture The right of sanctuary is in the South Kensington museum. _d._ 20 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1861. PICKERSGILL, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ London 3 Dec. 1782; adopted by Mr. Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, who placed him in his own business 1799; pupil of George Arnald, A.R.A. 1802–5; a student in the R.A. 1805, A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1826, retired R.A. 1873, librarian 1856 to death; exhibited 384 pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1806–72; many of his portraits and subject-pictures were engraved; painted portraits of nearly all the most celebrated people of his time; his portraits of Bentham, Godwin, M. G. Lewis, Hannah More, George Stephenson, sir Thomas Talfourd, and Wordsworth are in the National portrait gallery. _d._ Barnes, Surrey 21 April 1875. _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii_ 42–44 (1880); _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_ 47 (1862); _I.L.N. lxvi_ 456, 547 (1875) _portrait_; _Graphic xi_, 436, 450 (1875) _portrait_. PICKERSGILL, JEANNETTE CAROLINE. _b._ 1814; _m._ H. H. Pickersgill (son of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A.); well known in literary and scientific circles; a member of the Cremation society. _d._ 5 Cornwall residences, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1885, cremated at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, the first person cremated there 26 March 1885. _Transactions of Cremation soc._ (1885) 49; _Times 27 March 1885 p._ 10. PICKFORD, THOMAS. _b._ 1794; served in the Spanish army 1810–13; attached to general sir Richard Bourke, military agent in the Spanish army of reserve 7 April 1813; vice-consul at Corunna 5 July 1814; clerk to consul general in Paris 1 July 1820, deputy 30 July 1822; consular registrar to the embassy 2 Jany. 1832; consul at Paris 24 March 1834 to death; fought a duel with a Frenchman at Caen 1818; is drawn under name of Marmaduke Heath in Lost Sir Massingbird, a romance of real life [By James Payn] 2 vols. 1864. _d._ Paris 24 June 1865. _Times 24 June 1865 p._ 9, _26 June p._ 6; _Foreign office list_, _second ed. 1865 p._ 168. PICKNELL, GEORGE. _b._ Green farm, Chalvington, 13 miles from Brighton 29 Nov. 1813; a farmer at Chalvington; played in Sussex _v._ Nottingham 1835; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Sussex 19 June 1837; for 20 years a member of the Sussex eleven; a hard hitter, playing back, bowled fast and ripping, raising his hand to near his ear; in 2 matches in July 1850 carried out his bat in all four innings, in the last innings went in first and saw his whole side out; a match the United _v._ the Gentlemen of Sussex was played for his benefit 21 Aug. 1856. _d._ Chalvington 26 Feb. 1863. _W. Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 64; _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862). PICKNELL, ROBERT. _b._ Chalvington 2 June 1816; member of the Sussex eleven; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone _v._ Sussex 19 June 1837; generally took cover-point; landlord of Lamb hotel, Eastbourne 1847; lost a finger when pigeon shooting 1852. _d._ Eastbourne 7 Feb. 1869. _bur._ Chalvington. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii_ 406 (1862). PICTON, SIR JAMES ALLANSON (son of Wm. Pickton, timber merchant). _b._ Highfield st. Liverpool 2 Dec. 1805; employed by Daniel Stewart architect and surveyor 1826, a partner 1830, succeeded him 1 Jany. 1835, retired 1866; executed some important buildings in and near Liverpool; a leading authority on land arbitration; a local preacher among the Wesleyans to 1848; member of Liverpool town council 1849 to death; member of Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 6 Jany. 1849; obtained a public library for Liverpool 1852, the first chairman of the library and museum committee 1851 to death, the Picton reading room was started by the corporation 1879; a member of the Wavertree local board 1851, chairman of the board 1852; originated the YZ club at Liverpool 12 members only 1870; kept his golden wedding 28 April 1878; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; edited The Watchman’s Lantern, intended to throw light on the proceedings of the Wesleyan Methodist conference 17 Dec. 1834 to 18 Nov. 1835, twenty eight numbers; Selections from the Liverpool municipal archives and records, 2 vols. 1883–6; author of The architectural history of Liverpool 1858; Baronies of Forth and Bargey, Wexford, the antique dialect of the district 1866; Memorials of Liverpool, 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1875; and of about 60 papers in the transactions of learned societies. _d._ Sandyknowe, Wavertree, near Liverpool 15 July 1889. _bur._ Toxteth park cemet., bust by McBride in Liverpool free library. _Sir J. A. Picton by J. A. Picton, M.P._ (1891) 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 137 (1889–91); _Biograph Oct. 1880 pp._ 380–5. PIDDING, HENRY JAMES (son of Mr. Pidding of 1 Cornhill, London, stationer and lottery-office keeper). _b._ London 1797; painted humorous subjects from domestic life; exhibited 21 pictures at R.A., 42 at B.I., and 177 at Suffolk street 1818–64; member of Society of British artists 1843; painted a large picture of The gaming rooms at Homburg 1860; some of his pictures were engraved, several of them by himself in mezzotint; etched a series of six illustrations to The rival demons, an anonymous poem 1836. _d._ Greenwich 13 June 1864. PIDDINGTON, HENRY (2 son of James Piddington of Uckfield). _b._ 1797; commanded a ship in the mercantile marine; curator of the museum of economic geology in Calcutta about 1830; sub-secretary of the Asiatic soc. of Bengal about 1830; president of marine court of inquiry at Calcutta about 1845; coroner of Calcutta about 1849 to death; author of The horn-book of storms for the Indian and China seas 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The sailor’s horn-book for the law of storms 1848, 6 ed. 1876, in which he proposed the word cyclone as a name for whirling storms which was accepted by meteorologists; Conversations about hurricanes for the use of plain sailors 1852. _d._ Calcutta 7 April 1858. _Journal of Asiatic society of Bengal_ (1839) 559, (1859) 64. PIDGEON, HENRY CLARKE. _b._ March 1807; an artist and teacher of drawing in London to 1847, and 1851 to death, also at Liverpool 1847–51; professor of school of drawing at the Liverpool institute a short time; member of Liverpool academy 1847, non-resident member 1850–65, secretary 1850; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I., 15 at Suffolk st. 1838–53, and about 50 at Liverpool academy; founded with Joseph Mayer and Abraham Hume the Historic society of Lancashire and Cheshire 1848, an honorary member 7 May 1851, joint secretary with Hume till Jany. 1851, contributed many lithographs and etchings to the society’s publications; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1846, member 1861; president of the Sketching club, _d._ 39 Fitroy road, Regent’s park, London 6 Aug. 1880. _Journal of British archæol. assoc. xxxvi_ 355 (1880). PIERCE OR PEIRCE, EARL HORTON. _b._ New York 1823; appeared with Raymond’s circus at Philadelphia; joined Dan Emmet’s minstrel party at Franklin theatre, New York 1842; joined E. P. Christy’s minstrels; came to England in 1856; member of the Christy minstrels St. James’s hall, London, where he became well known by singing a song entitled Hoop de-dooden-do. _d._ suddenly in the Holloway road, London from effusion of serum on the brain 5 June 1859, inquest 7 June. PIERCE, EVAN. _b._ 1808; L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1836; L.S.A. London 1836; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1836, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1844; mayor of Denbigh; coroner for county of Denbigh about 1831 to death; during the cholera in 1832 he was most active in his exertions; a column with a statue raised in his honor at Denbigh 23 Nov. 1876. _d._ Salusbury place, Denbigh 15 March 1895. _Y Darlunydd, Carnarvon Dec. 1876 pp._ 1–2 _portrait and view of column_; _Lancet 9 Dec. 1876 p._ 821. PIERCE, JAMES HART, stage name of James Hart Glen. _b._ Leith, near Edinburgh 1856; a clerk; a gymnast, had a serious fall at South of England music hall, Portsmouth; partner with. Mike Mac as a gymnastic clown and pantomimist; music hall comedian; partner with George Monaghan to 1889; went to South Africa with Luscombe Searelle’s No. 6 company 1893; _m._ 1892 as his 2 wife Fanny Robina, widow of Frederick Stanislaus, musical composer. _d._ Walcot sq. Kennington, Surrey 5 Jany. 1894. _bur._ Tooting cemetery 10 Jany. PIERCY, BENJAMIN (3 son of Robert Piercy, surveyor). _b._ Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire 16 March 1827; in his father’s office to 1847; chief assistant to Charles Mickleburgh, surveyor, Montgomery 1847–51; with Henry Robert made survey for Shrewsbury and Chester railway 1851; engineer of Red Valley railway bill 1852; engaged on the Cambrian system and on most of the railway schemes in Wales; made the railway bridge at Barmouth and the bridge near Portmadoc; engaged in surveying and making 300 miles of railways in Sardinia 1862–81, and a harbour at the Golfo de Aranci; a commendatore of the Crown of Italy 1881; acquired large estates in Sardinia and bred cattle, horses and sheep; a great friend of Garibaldi; made railway lines in Italy, France and India; purchased Marchwiel hall and estate near Wrexham 1881, where he had a cricket ground; M.I.C.E. 8 Jany. 1860; a candidate for Peterborough 1883. _d._ 15 Portman square, London 24 March 1888. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 333–9 (1889). PIERREPONT, HENRY MANVERS (3 son of Charles Pierrepont, 1 earl Manvers 1737–1816). _b._ 18 March 1780; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1800, D.C.L. 1834; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Sweden 20 April 1804 to 19 Jany. 1807; P.C. 20 May 1807; member of the Dandy club of which he was the last survivor. _d._ Thoresby park, Ollerton, Notts. 10 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 184 (1852). PIERSON, HENRY HUGH (son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of Salisbury). _b._ Oxford 14 April 1815; educ. Harrow 1829, and Trin. coll. Camb.; studied music in Germany from 1839; Reid professor of music in univ. of Edinb. 1 June 1844, but never officiated as professor; resided in Germany 1844 to death; wrote music under pseudonym of Edgar Mannsfeldt-Pierson; produced an opera The elves and the earth king at Brunn, and another opera Leila at Hamburg 1848; his oratorio Jerusalem, produced at the Norwich festival 1852, was performed by the Harmonic union at Exeter hall 18 May 1853 and at Wurzburg 1862; composed incidental music to the second part of Goethe’s Faust produced at Stadt-theater, Hamburg 1854, printed at Mayence 1856, for which Leopold I of Belgium gave him the gold medal for art and science; his unfinished oratorio Hezekiah was performed at Norwich festival 1869; his opera Contarini in five acts was produced at Hamburg April 1872; three of his orchestral overtures Macbeth 1860, Romeo and Juliet 1870, and As you like it, have been given at Crystal palace concerts; wrote All my heart’s thine own, song 1844; Salve eternum, a Roman dirge 1853; The office for holy communion 1870; Thirty hymn tunes 1870, Second series 1872; Ye mariners of England, a part song 1880; Hurrah for merry England 1885. _d._ Leipzig 28 Jany. 1873. bur. Sonning, Berkshire 6 Feb. _Robin Legge’s History of the Norwich festivals_, _with portrait_; _H. H. Pearson’s Collected songs_, _Leipzig with portrait_; _Graphic vii_ 215, 220 (1873) _portrait_; _Grove’s Dictionary of music ii_ 752 (1880). PIERSON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Plymouth 1782; entered navy 27 May 1796, served in the Belleisle at Trafalgar when he was wounded; employed on the coast of Spain 1814; knighted by marquis of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland, on the occasion of his visiting the “Madagascar” at Kingstown, Dublin Oct. 1836; captain 28 June 1838; retired rear-admiral 10 Sept. 1857. _d._ Langstone, near Havant 25 March 1858. _G.M. May 1858 p._ 553. PIERSON, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Charles Pierson of Cheltenham). _b._ Havre, France 23 Nov. 1839; educ. Cheltenham college 1853–6, head of the college; won the British Association’s gold medal 1856; gained the Pollock medal Dec. 1858, and six prizes at Addiscombe college 1858; a performer on the piano, cornet and concertina; a chess player; an actor, and a Sanscrit scholar; lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec, 1858, major 25 Nov. 1880 to death; designed and constructed the new palace of the British legation at Teheran; director of the Persian telegraph Oct. 1871 to Oct. 1873; secretary to the Indian defence committee July 1877; military secretary to lord Ripon, governor general of India, Sept. 1880; commanding engineer of the field force proceeding against the Mahsoud Waziri tribe March 1881. _d._ at Bunnoo 2 June 1881, marble tablet with medallion relief of his head in Cheltenham college chapel. _H. M. Vibart’s Addiscombe_ (1894) 185, 643–6, 726. PIESSE, GEORGE WILLIAM SEPTIMUS (7 child of Charles A. J. Piesse, chief clerk in war office). _b._ 30 May 1820; a practical optician; studied chemistry under professor Graham at University college, London; an analytical chemist; in the employment of J. and E. Atkinson, perfumers, and then with Francis Henry Breidenbach; in partnership with Wilhelm Lubin, as perfumers at 2 New Bond st. London with large cellars under the street 1855, flower farmers near Nice, lavender gardeners at Mitcham, Surrey, bonded warehouses in the London docks where the perfumed spirits for exportation were made; introduced frangipani, kiss-me-quick, the trump card, and other mixed perfumes; makers of toilet and medicated soaps and of ribbon of Bruges; an adept in the art of conjuring; an early associate of Chemical soc., F.C.S. Dec, 1862; wrote the Scientific and useful column in Family Herald during 25 years; author of Is selenium a true element 1842; The art of perfumery and the methods of obtaining the odours of plants 1855, 5 ed. 1891; Chymical, natural and physical magic 1858; The laboratory of chemical wonders 1860; Lectures on perfumes, flower farming, and of obtaining the odours of plants 1865. _d._ Hughendon house, Grove park, Chiswick 23 Oct. 1882. _G. L. M. Strauss’ England’s Workshops_ (1864) 170–8; _Chemist and Druggist 15 Nov. 1882 p._ 496 _portrait_; _Journal of Chemical Soc. xliii_ 255 (1883). 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._