Sir Arthur Leary Pigott

(1749-1819)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Pigott, Arthur Leary, Sir, 1749-1819 NRA: Pigott Sir Arthur Leary (1752-1819) Knight Attorney General MP DNB: Pigott, Sir Arthur Leary (1749–1819), lawyer and politician LBT ID: ArPiggo1819 VIAF ID: 48785277 LOC ID: no90003094	B/BAP: 1749-10-19 DIED: 1819-09-06
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English lawyer educated at the Middle Temple; a political associate of Charles James Fox, he was solicitor-general to the prince of Wales (1783-92), and MP for Steyning (1806), Arundel (1806-12, 1818-19), and Horsham (1812-18).
REFERENCES TO Sir Arthur Leary Pigott: Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 14 July 1807 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, 24 January 1811 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 2 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1807 Letters 1811 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. V: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 1