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PIGGOTT, SAMUEL, son of William Piggott, Farnham, Surrey; b.; adm.; KS 1681; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1684, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1684, aged 18, scholar 1 May 1685; BA 1687/8; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1692, priest 11 Jun 1693 (both Winchester); Master, Guildford Free School 1697-8; Rector of Stoke next Guildford, Surrey 1707-12; Rector of Windlesham, Surrey, from 17 Jan 1717/8; buried Windlesham, Surrey 27 Mar 1754.

PIGGOTT, SIR GEORGE BETTESWORTH, second son of Fraser Piggott, Fitz Hall, Iping, Sussex, employee Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and his first wife Fanny Margaret, only child of George Bush, The Priory, Clifton; b. 30 Apr 1867; adm. 23 Jan 1879 (H); left Dec 1883; adm. Middle Temple 3 Nov 1884, called to bar 13 Jun 1888; South-Eastern Circuit; Judicial Officer and Vice-Consul, Blantyre, British Central Africa 14 Aug 1896, Chief Judicial Officer 28 Oct 1898; acting Judge, Zanzibar 9 Aug 1900, Senior Judge 14 Aug 1901-3; President, Court of Appeal for East Africa, and Legal Member, Eastr Africa Protectorate Council 1903-4; Assistant Judge and acting Judge, Consular Court for Dominions of Sublime Ottoman Porte, Constantinople 20 Dec 1904-10; Chairman, Special Military Service Tribunal for London, and Deputy Chairman, House of Commons Section of Appeal Tribunal for London, during 1914-8 War; CBE 7 Jan 1918; KBE 1 Jan 1919; member London County Council (Municipal Reform) 1917-22; JP London 1918; m. 1st, 12 Jul 1904 Amy, younger dau. of Maj. Harvey Spiller, Brunswick Square, Hove, Sussex; m. 2nd, 15 Sep 1915 (divorced 1921) Nadine, widow of Edward Graves Brinkley, Fortland, co. Sligo, and younger dau. of Sir Reginald William Proctor-Beauchamp, Bart.; m. 3rd, 30 Nov 1927 Winifred Lathbury, dau. of Edward J. Dove, Riding Mill, Northumberland; m. 4th, 19 Jul 1947 Constance Louise, widow of Enrique Juan Penard-Fernandez (she had had two previous husbands), and dau. of Herbert E. Kennaird; d. 14 Mar 1952.

PIGGOT, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 13) Mar 1720/1; in under school list 1722.

PIGGOT, NICHOLAS; b.; adm. (aged 11) 1717.

PIGGOT, FRANCIS; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1716; in under school list 1717.

PIGGOT, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1724/5; left 1725.

PIGEON, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner in Mich. quarter 1565 (tutor, Prebendary Young) (Chapter Muniments 54006).

Pierson, Peter Douglas Humphrey, son of George H. Pierson, manufacturing chemist, and Hel­ena Marion, d. of William Edward Jones of Eastnor, Herefordshire; b. 12 July 1919; adm. May 1933 (H); left July 1936; enlisted Gunner HAC, transf. RHA 1940 (L/Bdr), p.o.w. Greece 1941; d. as prisoner in Germany 18 Oct. 1942.

Peter Douglas Humphrey Pierson was born at St Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire on the 12th of July 1919 the son of George Humphrey Pierson, a manufacturing chemist, and Helena Marion (nee Jones) Pierson of 94, Queensway, Bayswater, London W2.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from May 1933 to July 1936.
He enlisted as a Gunner in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1939 where he served with D Battery. He transferred to the 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery in 1940. He was posted to Egypt and later to Greece.
He was captured at the fall of Greece on the 28th of April 1941 and was taken to Germany where he was interned at Stalag XVIIIA at Wolfsburg from the 24th of September 1941 as POW No. 1208. On his arrival there it was recorded that he was six feet four inches tall and that he had brown hair.
He was admitted to the hospital at Wolfsberg on the 18th of October 1942 suffering from typhus. He died there the following day.
He was buried at Wolfsberg Cemetery II, Grave 24 on the 21st of October 1942 but his body was later exhumed and moved to its present location.
He is buried at Klagenfurt War Cemetery Plot 6, Row A, Grave 4.

PIERPOINT, HENRY BAILEY; b. 2 Feb 1837; adm. 22 Jun 1848 (Rigaud's); went into merchant navy.