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Sotheby's, the book-auctioneer's." The place never was Sotheby's. The only ex- planation I can suggest for the confusion is that in 1846 the William Upcott Sale was placed in the hands of, and catalogued for ale by, the Evanses (R. H., T., and C. Evans); but before the sale actually took place the Evanses found themselves in financial difficulties, and Messrs. Sotheby & Wilkinson were asked to carry out the sale by auction ; but whether this took place on Evans's premises or on Sotheby's I cannot At- this moment state. W. ROBERTS.

SIB ARTHUR LEARY PIGOTT. As the biographies in the ' D.N.B.' are being re- vised, it might be well to clear up some points in the life of Sir Arthur Leary Pigott, Attorney-General of England in " All the Talents " ministry.

The ' D.N.B.' states that Pigott was born in 1752, and matriculated at University College. This conflicts with the statement in Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses ' that he matriculated at Trinity. That Foster is correct is proved by the following extract from the Register, for which I am indebted to Mr. Falconer Madan :

Termino S u Michaelis 1778

Coll. Trhi. 17 mo [Oct.]. Arthurus Piggot

26 Joannis de insula Barbadoes

Arm. F.

This entry as to age agrees with the year of birth in the ' D.N.B.' On the other hand, there is the following entry in the Register of Baptisms for St. Michael's Parish, Bar- bados, kindly copied for me by Mr. Goulburn Sinckler, a stipendiary magistrate of that colony :

"1749, October 29. Arthur Leary, son o John and Jane Pigott, born 19 th ."

The record of Pigott' s admission to the Middle Temple (for which I am indebted to Mr. Hoskins of the Treasurer's office of that Inn) says :

"Arthur Leary Piggott, eldest son of John Piggott of George's Town, Grenada, America, Esq., Admitted, 17 th August, 1767."

If Pigott was born in 1752, he would have been only fifteen when admitted. The description of the father as "of George's Town, Grenada," denotes that he had settled in Grenada (of which the capital is St. George's), after the cession of that island to Britain, by France, in 1763. Ought there not to be some record of Pigott' s call to the Bar ? It might contain a statement of his age at the date of that event.

It is said in the ' D.N.B.' and in several other biographies of Pigott, that he at one

time held the office of Attorney-General of the Island of Grenada. Having searched in vain among the records of " Grants and Warrants" (Colonial Office), at the Public Record Office, and elsewhere, for a record of Pigott' s appointment to that position, I think it probable that he may have held the office temporarily, during a vacancy by death or otherwise, of a substantive holder of the appointment.

In various biographies Pigott is stated to have been appointed a King's Counsel in 1783. An examination of the Patent Rolls of that year shows, not that Pigott was appointed a K.C., but that he was given a patent of precedence at the Bar.

N. DARNELL DAVIS. Royal Colonial Institute,

Northumberland Avenue, S.W.

HENRY HALLIWELL, B.D. I have no wish to start another supplementary list of omis- sions for the ' Dictionary of National Bio- graphy,' but I think the subject of this note might well have been included in its pages.

Henry Halliwell (1765-1835) was the son of the Rev. William Halliwell, the head master of the ancient Grammar School of Burnley in Lancashire, and incumbent of the parochial chapel of Holme. He was born at Burnley in August, 1765, and after receiving a few years' education in his father's school he was sent to the even then noted Manchester School, and proceeded to Brasenose College, where he matriculated 18 Jan., 1783, and on 10 Oct., 1787, was nominated Hulmian Exhibitioner. He pro- ceeded M.A. in 1789, and B.D. in 1803. In 1790 he was elected a Fellow of his college, and six years afterwards was ap- pointed Dean and Hebrew Lecturer. He was also a Fellow of the Collegiate Church of Manchester. In 1803 he was presented by Brasenose College to the rectory of Clayton-cum-Keymer in Sussex. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Carlile of Bolton-le-Moors, having previously suffered a disappointment at the hands of a lady who, after jilting him, married her footman. The epigram on this double event written by Reginald Heber was quoted at 1 S. vii. 270.

Henry Halliwell, owing to a slight lame- ness, obtained the sobriquet of Dr. Toe. He was a learned Hebrew scholar, and edited five books of Falconer's edition of Strabo, and the following item occurs in the sale catalogue of his library : " Strabo' s Geo- graphy, Greek and Latin, and manuscript Translation by the late Rev. H. Halliwell."