Thomas Herbert Pigot
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Thomas Pigot QC | |
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| 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]