Modern English biography

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. PIGOT, RICHARD. _b._ 1774; captain of a new independent company of foot 21 Dec. 1793; captain 58 foot 21 April 1795; captain 14 dragoons 13 Sept. 1798, major 4 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 21 light dragoons 1 May 1806 to 30 July 1820, when placed on h.p.; col. 4 dragoon guards 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Chievely, near Newbury, Berks. 21 Nov. 1868. PIGOTT, RICHARD (son of George Pigott, clerk to Peter Purcell, coach proprietor, Dublin). _b._ county Meath about 1828; clerk in office of The Ulsterman newspaper, Belfast, edited by Denis Holland, who transferred the paper to Dublin July 1858 and changed its name to The Irishman, manager of the paper and practically controlled it, in June 1865 the proprietor Patrick James Smith gave the paper to Pigott; started a weekly magazine entitled The Shamrock 1866, and another entitled The flag of Ireland; condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for publishing seditious matter 1867, and imprisoned for six months for contempt of court 1871; contested Limerick as a Fenian 20 Nov. 1868; sold his three publications to the Irish national newspaper and publishing company 1879; author of Personal recollections of an Irish national journalist 1882, 2 ed. 1883; sold to the Irish loyal and patriotic union in 1886 papers accusing Parnell of complicity in the murders of the Land league, The Times purchased these papers and published a series of articles on Parnellism and crime 1887, including a letter signed by Parnell condoning the Phœnix Park murders of 18 April 1887, a commission of three judges sat July 1888 onward to inquire into the allegations made by The Times against Parnell; Pigott was examined as a witness 21 and 22 Feb. 1889, confessed to Henry Labouchere, M.P. that he had forged the papers 23 Feb., fled from England same day, _shot himself dead_ in the Hotel de los Embajadores, Madrid 12 March 1889. _Report of trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. Pigott_ (1868); _James O’Connor’s Recollections of R. Pigott_ (1889); _J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections ii_ 198–9 (1892); _Vanity Fair 9 March 1889 p._ 177 _portrait_. PIGOT, SIR ROBERT, 4 Baronet (2 son of general sir George Pigot, bart. 1766–1841). _b._ Patshull, co. Stafford 1801; succeeded 24 June 1841; M.P. Bridgnorth 1832 to 1837 and 1838 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Bridgnorth 8 July 1852 to March 1853 when unseated for bribery; contested Bridgnorth 26 July 1837; owner of racehorses, Conyngham won the 2,000 guineas 1847 and the Royal hunt cup. _d._ Hillside, Bracknell 1 June 1891. PIKE, JOHN DEODATUS GREGORY (eld. son of John Baxter Pike, schoolmaster 1745–1811). _b._ Edmonton 6 April 1784; educ. Wymondley college Herts. 1802–6; became a particular baptist Aug. 1804; classical assistant in the school of his uncles G. and R. Gregory at Lower Edmonton 1806–9; pastor of the baptist church Brook st. Derby 1810, a new chapel was opened for him 1815, enlarged 1819, and rebuilt on a new site 1842, pastor to his death; kept a boarding school at Derby about 1810–8; the first secretary of the General Baptist missionary society June 1816; trained young missionaries in his family; edited The general baptist repository and missionary observer Jany. 1822 to death; author of A catechism of scriptural instruction for young persons 1816; The consolations of gospel truth 1817, 2 ed. Derby 1818, vol. ii Derby 1820; Persuasives to early piety, 7 ed. 1865; Swedenborgianism depicted 1820; A guide for young disciples of the Holy Saviour 1823, 2 ed. 1880; Religion and eternal life 1834; Christian liberality in the distribution of property 1836. _d._ Derby 4 Sept. 1854. _A memoir of J. D. G. Pike_, _edited by his sons_ (1855) _portrait_; _Amos Sutton’s Mission to Orissa_ (1833) _vii and_ 1–10; _Repository and missionary observer_ (1854) 463–8; _The works of J. G. Pike_ (1862–3), _memoir pp._ 11–24. PIKE, WARBURTON (youngest son of Wm. Pike of Bucknowle, Church Knowle, Dorset). _b._ Bucknowle 1818; educ. Univ. coll. London; student of Middle Temple 7 June 1837; certificated special pleader 1840 to death; published Translations from Dante, Petrarch, Michael Angelo, and Vittoria Colonna 1879; A translation of Dante’s Divine comedy, Inferno 1881. _d._ the Grove, Highgate 29 Jany. 1882. _bur._ at Church Knowle. PILCH, FULLER (eld. son of Nathaniel Pilch). _b._ Horningtoft, near Fakenham, Norfolk 17 March 1803; a tailor by trade; played his first match at Lord’s, Norfolk against Marylebone club 24 July 1820; member of the Bury St. Edmunds eleven 1825–30; played for England against Sussex at Lord’s 1827, when he made the highest score, 38 runs, against the new roundhand bowling; resided at Norwich 1829–35; beat at single wicket Thomas Marsden the Yorkshire champion at Norwich 18 July 1833 and again at Sheffield before 20,000 people 5–7 Aug. 1833; one of the Kent eleven with salary of £100 a year 1836–54; member of Clarke’s All England eleven 1841–51; the finest batsman in England 1825–50; landlord of a tavern at Town Malling, Kent 1835; a tailor at Canterbury; kept a shop for sale of cricket implements at Canterbury 1842 to death; landlord of Saracen’s head inn Canterbury 1860. _d._ Canterbury 1 May 1870. _bur._ St. Gregory’s churchyard. _Baily’s Mag. xxvii_ 270–9 (1875); _Denison’s Sketches of the players_ (1846) 64–9; _Pycroft’s Cricket field_, _3 ed._ (1859) 135 _portrait_; _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i_ 434 (1862), _v page xiii_ (1876); _F. Gale’s Game of cricket_ (1887) 11–26; _Illust. London life 16 July 1843 p._ 236 _portrait_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 24 _portrait_; _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_ (1893) 26 _portrait_; _I.L.N. iii_ 45 (1843) _portrait_. PILCH, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Horningtoft, Norfolk 4 Nov. 1794; a tailor and bat maker; first match at Lord’s, Marylebone v. Norfolk 24 July 1820; a slow bowler with a delivery between underhand and round; resided successively at Holt in Norfolk, London, and Norwich; went to King’s Lynn in