His Honour
Thomas Pigot
QC
Common Serjeant of London
In office
1984–1990

Thomas Herbert Pigot, QC (19 May 1921 – 10 September 1998) was an English barrister and judge. He was Common Serjeant of London from 1984 to 1990.

Born in Wigan in 1921, the son of a company secretary and of a teacher, Pigot was educated at Manchester Grammar School, where he was a scholar, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a Somerset scholar and took first-class honours in jurisprudence.[1][2] During the Second World War, after training at Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Welch Regiment, before transferring to the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.[1][2] He saw action in North Africa, and was wounded and taken prisoner by the Italians in 1943 in Tunisia.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "His Honour Thomas Pigot". The Times. 9 October 1998. p. 27.
  2. 1 2 3 "His Honour Thomas Pigot". The Daily Telegraph. 24 September 1998. p. 33.
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