Thomas Pigott (Aylesbury MP)

Doddershall House, Pigott family estate

Thomas Pigott of Doddershall, Buckinghamshire (fl. 1589) was an English politician and a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England.

Family

Thomas Pigott was born to Thomas Pigott Sr. and Marie Lane, daughter of Sir Ralph Lane.[1] His father was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1593–1594, and a justice of the peace for the county.[2]

His uncle was the Welsh judge John Lloyd, while his half-cousin, the MP Thomas Pigott, was the son-in-law of Sir Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England.[3][4][5]

Through his mother Mary Lane, Pigott was a grandson of Lady Maud Parr, the cousin of Queen Katherine Parr, and a nephew of Governor Sir Ralph Lane, Speaker Sir Edward Phelips, builder of Montacute House, and of Peter Wentworth, the brother-in-law of Sir Francis Walsingham.[6][7]

Pigott married twice, firstly to Dorothy Cottenham, daughter and coheiress of Henry Cottenham of Norfolk. They had one son and one daughter. His second wife was a daughter of Sir John Allot, alderman and Lord Mayor of London.

Career

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Aylesbury in 1589.[8] He was probably the Thomas Pigott who served as a Captain of the Buckinghamshire Trained Bands when they were called out during an invasion scare in 1599.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (London: J. & W. Robins, 1847.), Vol 1, p. 406
  2. ↑ Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (London: J. & W. Robins, 1847.), Vol 1, p. 406
  3. ↑ Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (London: J. & W. Robins, 1847.), Vol 1, p. 406
  4. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Volume V, p. 438, YALE 18
  5. ↑ Charles Harvey Townshend. Pedigree of Yale, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 1899) Vol. 53, Page 82-3
  6. ↑ James, Susan E. (23 September 2004). "Lane [née Parr], Maud [Matilda], Lady Lane (c. 1507–1558/9), courtier". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70800. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ↑ "Phelips, Edward" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  8. ↑ "PIGOTT, Thomas II, of Doddershall, Bucks. - History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  9. ↑ Ian F.W. Beckett, Buckinghamshire: A Military History, Chapter 1, at Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust.
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