Pigot (surname)
Pigot is an English surname.
The Pigot Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
Derivation and variants[edit]
The name Pigot is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is not clear. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French picote meaning pock-marked, freckled.[1]
Pigott, Piggott and Pickett are variant forms.
People with the surname Pigot[edit]
- Mary Pigot (daughter of Gervase Pigot), former wife of Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet (1640–1716)
- George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot (1719–1777), governor of Madras
- British Major General Henry Pigot, in Malta in 1800 for the French surrender
- John Edward Pigot (1822–1871), Irish music collector
- Edward Pigot (1858–1929), Irish/Australian Jesuit priest, seismologist and astronomer
- Robert Pigot (disambiguation), various people
- Hugh Pigot (disambiguation), various people
- Neil Pigot (born 1961), Australian actor
- Spencer Pigot (born 1993), American racing driver
- Fictional characters
- Serafine Pigot, a character in the 1997 An American Werewolf in Paris motion picture
See also[edit]
- Pigot (disambiguation): other meanings
- Pigott (surname)
References[edit]
- ^ Pickett and Pigott in A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames: with special American instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley, London, 1901.
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