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Authorised form of namePiggott; Sir; Arthur Leary (1749 - 1819)
Other forms of surnamePigott
Dates1749 - 1819
Place of birthSt Michael's parish, Barbados, West Indies
Date of birth19 October 1749
Place of deathEastbourne, Sussex
Date of death06 September 1819
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
Admitted Middle Temple (1767); Trinity College Oxford
Career:
Called to the Bar (1777); practised in Grenada; Attorney General, Grenada; Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales (1783-his dismissal in 1792); Court of Chancery (1793); Attorney General (1806); MP for Arundel (1806-1819)
Honours:
Kt 1806
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/01/1787
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Authority:
Altname from DNB
CodeNA6462
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1786/24Piggott, Sir Arthur Leary: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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