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 the High Commissioner in Cyprus, and after an outbreak in the Island of Barbadoes he was sent as Commissioner to try the offenders. He was created a C.M.G. in 1877. He retired in 1880 and died at Southport, 5 Dec. 1896.

Admitted 20 February, 1682-3.

Third son of Francis Phipps of Reading, Berkshire. He was admitted from Gray's Inn, where he entered 11 Feb. 1678. He was called to the Bar 9 May, 1684, elected to the Bench 29 Oct. 1708, and was Autumn Reader in 1715. He was made Chancellor of Ireland in 1710 and knighted. He was a high Tory, with Jacobite leanings, which rendered him unpopular with the Whigs in Ireland, and he was removed from his office in 1714. He then resumed his practice at the Bar and was engaged in the defence of Bishop Atterbury in 1723. He died in the Middle Temple 9 Oct. 1723.

Admitted 25 March, 1772.

Third son of the Right Hon. Constantine, Lord Mulgrave. He was educated at Eton, and entered the army and served with distinction in the American war. He entered Parliament for Totnes in 1784 and was generally a supporter of Pitt, in whose ministry he was Foreign Secretary in 1805. In the Portland Ministry, 1807, he became First Lord of the Admiralty. He was created Earl of Mulgrave and Viscount Normanby, 7 Sept. 1812. Under Lord Liverpool he held the post of Master of the Ordnance, but retired in 1820 and was created a G.C.B. He died 7 April, 1831. He was a man of taste and a generous patron of the fine arts.

PIGGOTT. See PIGOTT.

Admitted 18 November, 1818.

Only son of John Pigot, M.D., of Kilworth, co. Cork (physician). He graduated B.A. at Dublin in 1819, and at first devoted himself to medical studies, but taking up law was called to the Irish Bar in 1826. He became a King's Counsel in 1835, Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1839, on his election for Clonmel, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1846. He possessed a great reputation, not only as a lawyer, but as a man of letters, and he is said to have written some of the Irish sketches published by Thomas Crofton Croker. He died in Dublin 22 Dec. 1873.

Admitted 17 August, 1767.

Eldest son of John Pigott of St. George's Town, Grenada. He was called to the Bar 28 Nov. 1777, and first practised in that island, where he became Attorney-General. In 1774 he was made King's Counsel and a Bencher of the Inn on 20 June, 1783. In 1792 he was Reader at the Inn and is then described as Solicitor-General to the Prince of Wales. Six years later he was elected Treasurer. In 1806 he became Attorney-General and was knighted, whilst representing Steyning, in Sussex. He subsequently represented Arundel in that county. As Attorney-General he conducted the impeachment of Lord Melville. He died at Eastbourne, 6 Sept. 1819.