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Piggott
Pigot, Pigott or Piggott may refer to: People * Pigot (surname), including a list of people with this name * Pigott (surname), including a list of people with the surname Pigott or Piggott Places * Piggott, Arkansas, United States, a city * Piggott Peninsula, Antarctica * Pigott Street, London * 10220 Pigott, an asteroid Other uses * HM galley ''Pigot'', two Royal Navy vessels * ''Pigot'' (East Indiaman), two British East India Company vessels * Pigot baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain * Pigott baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * Pigot's Directory, a British directory first published in 1814 * Pigot Diamond, a famous diamond * The Piggott School, a Church of England academy secondary school in Twyford, Berkshire, England * Piggott High School, Pigott, Arkansas See also * Pigott's Building, a heritage-listed department store in Toowoomba, Queensland * Piggotts, a small township in Antigua * Abington Pigotts Abington Pigotts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Piggott School
The Piggott School is a Church of England academy secondary school in Wargrave in Berkshire, England. The school has approximately 1,516 pupils and around 185 teaching staff. The school specialises in Modern Languages and Humanities. It has been awarded International school status by the British Council. The most recent inspection from Ofsted achieved an overall effectiveness rating of 'Good'. The Piggott School has a long established exchange programme with the Ville-Gymnasium School der Erftstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and other programmes with I.E.S. Las Canteras in Collado Villalba near Madrid, Spain, and with Lycée Jean Guéhenno, France. It is a partner school of the EU organised Comenius project. The Piggott School is also the only church of England secondary school in the Reading, Twyford area. The Piggott School is one of the best performing secondary schools in the Wokingham District. History The Piggott School was founded by Robert Piggott, a philanthropis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggott, Arkansas
Piggott is a city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States. It is one of the two county seats of Clay County, along with Corning. It is the northern terminus of the Arkansas segment of the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, a National Scenic Byway. As of the 2010 census, Piggott's population was 3,849. The town was named after James A. Piggott, one of the early settlers and initiator of the local post office. Geography Piggott is located in eastern Clay County on the eastern edge of Crowley's Ridge. U.S. Route 62 passes through the city, running west to Corning and northeast to Interstate 55 at New Madrid, Missouri. The northern terminus of U.S. Route 49 is in Piggott; the highway runs southwest to Paragould, and to Gulfport, Mississippi. According to the United States Census Bureau, Piggott has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.01%, is water. The topography of Piggott is mostly flat in the eastern half of the city with the more developed western half lying along Crowley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigott (surname)
Pigott and Piggott are English surnames. The Pigott Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Derivation and variants The name Pigott / Piggott is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is not clear. It may stem from the Germanic or Old English ''pic'', a sharply pointed hill, being applied to residents living near such a feature, or could have been used for a tall, thin person as ''pic'' could mean a sharp or pointed tool. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French ''picote'' meaning pock-marked, freckled. in ''A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames: with special American instances'' by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley, London, 1901. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggott High School
Piggott High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school serving students in grades six through twelve in the rural community of Piggott, Arkansas, United States. It is one of three public high schools located in Clay County and serves the communities of Piggott, Greenway, Pollard, Rector, Nimmons, Saint Francis, and Corning. With more than 450 students, it is the sole high school of the Piggott School District. Academics The school is accredited by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) and has been accredited by AdvancED since 1958. The assumed course of study follows the Smart Core curriculum developed the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE), which requires students to complete at least 24 credit units before graduation. Students engage in regular (core) and career focus courses and exams and may select Advanced Placement (AP) coursework and exams that may lead to college credit. Athletics The Piggott Mohawks participate in various interscholastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggotts
Piggotts, also known as St Mark's Village, is a small township in Saint George Parish on Antigua island in Antigua and Barbuda. It had a population of 1,478 in 2001. It is located in the north of the island, to the east of the capital city of St. John's. History In the late 1850s and early 1860s a school was built in what is now Piggotts to provide education to the poorer residents of the nearby sugar estates of Carlisle, Fitches Creek, Weirs, Gunthorpes, Paynters and Cassada Gardens. This school was centrally located so all of the residents of the estates would have easy access to the school. Circa 1864, Richard Albert Louden Piggott from Newgate Street in St. John’s City, moved to this area. Piggott had so many children, that the area eventually became known as “Piggotts Village”. Rivalry with Osbourn The village had a rivalry with Osbourn Farm, especially in cricket. The two villages were separated by a gap, but when the affordable housing project Happy Hill was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggott Peninsula
Piggott Peninsula is a broad snow-covered peninsula between New Bedford Inlet and Wright Inlet on Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, bounded to the west by Bryan Glacier and Swann Glacier. The feature was first seen from the air and photographed by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) on December 30, 1940. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961–67. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1985 after William R. Piggott, British ionospheriscist and Head, Atmospheric Sciences Division, British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ... (BAS), 1973–79. References Peninsulas of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigot (surname)
Pigot is an English surname. The Pigot Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. Derivation and variants The name Pigot is derived from Picot. The latter is recorded as a given name in the Domesday Book, but its origin is not clear. William Camden suggested a derivation from Old French ''picote'' meaning pock-marked, freckled. in ''A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames: with special American instances'' by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley, London, 1901. Pigott, Piggott and are variant forms. People with the surname Pigot ...
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Pigott's Building
Pigott's Building is a heritage-listed commercial building and former department store at 381–391 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Toowoomba firm James Marks and Son, and built in 1910 as the principal store of the Pigott & Co. department store chain, replacing an earlier 1902 store on the site that had burned down in 1909. The store was extended in 1914, 1935, 1956, and again in the 1960s. The Pigott & Co. department store was Toowoomba's largest retail store by the 1950s, and expanded into foodstuff sales and a coffee lounge after the purchase of two adjacent properties in the 1960s. Pigott & Co. was sold to the Brisbane-based chain McDonnell and East in 1983, and operated as a department store under that name until they vacated the site in 1990. As of February 2013, the building was occupied by discount furniture and bedding store Super A-Mart. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History This two storey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigot Diamond
The Pigot Diamond, also sometimes called the Pigott Diamond, the Lottery Diamond, or the Great Lottery Diamond, was a large diamond that originated in India in the 18th century and was brought to England where at the time it was the largest diamond in Europe. It remained in Europe for half a century, changing hands several times until it was sold to the ruler of Egypt in the 1820s. What happened to it after that is unknown, inspiring a two-century mystery. Pigot acquisition The Pigot Diamond was obtained by George Pigot during his term as British governor of Madras, the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu for the East India Company. He may have received it from an Indian prince in 1763. This may have been the Rajah of Tanjore as Pigot had told the directors of the East India Company that he had received presents from the Rajah. It also may have been Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah, the Nabob of Arcot. The diamond may have been mined at Golkonda. Diamonds were a common way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abington Pigotts
Abington Pigotts is a small village in Cambridgeshire, England about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Royston, Hertfordshire. History The parish of Abington Pigotts covers an area of . Roughly circular in shape it is surrounded by the parishes of Shingay, Wendy, Bassingbourn, Litlington, and Steeple Morden with its boundaries largely following minor waterways and streams. A settlement from the early Iron Age has been found in the parish, covering around 20 acres a half mile north-west of the church, and was occupied through the Belgic and Roman periods. Pottery from the Anglo-Saxon era has also been found near the site. In early medieval times Abington was sometimes listed as a hamlet of its southern neighbour, Litlington, despite possessing its own church from at least 1200. Listed as ''Abintone'' in the Domesday Book of 1086, the name Abington means "estate associated with a man called Abba". In medieval times the village was variously known as ''Abington by Shingay'', afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigott Baronets
The Pigott Baronetcy, of Knapton in the Queen's County, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 October 1808, for George Pigott. Pigott was the son of Thomas Pigott, a major general in the army and Member of Parliament. Pigott baronets, of Knapton (1808) * Sir George Pigott, 1st Baronet (1766–1844) * Sir Thomas Pigott, 2nd Baronet (1796–1847) * Sir Charles Robert Pigott, 3rd Baronet (1835–1911) * Sir Berkeley Pigott, 4th Baronet (1894–1982) * Sir (Berkeley) Henry Sebastian Pigott, 5th Baronet (1925–2017) * Sir David John Berkeley Pigott, 6th Baronet (born 1955). He succeeded his father in 2017, but the Official Roll marks the title vacant. The heir presumptive is the current Baronet's brother Antony Charles Philip Pigott (born 1960). See also *Pigot baronets The Pigot Baronetcy, of Patshull Hall in the County of Stafford, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 5 December 1764 for the politician and col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigot's Directory
Pigot's Directory was a major British directory started in 1814 by James Pigot. Pigot's Directories covered England, Scotland, and Wales in the period before official Civil Registration began and are a valuable source of information regarding all major professions, nobility, gentry, clergy, trades and occupations including taverns and public houses and much more are listed. There are even timetables of the coaches and carriers that served a town. Parishes are listed for each area with useful information including the number of inhabitants, a geographical description and the main trades and industries of the area or town. List of Pigot’s Trade Directories by date * * * * List of Pigot’s Trade Directories by geographic coverage *Bedfordshire 1839 *Cambridgeshire 1839 *Cambridgeshire 1830 *Derbyshire 1835 *Durham 1834 *Dyfed 1830 (Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire) *Essex 1839 *Herefordshire 1835 * Hertfordshire 1839 *Huntingdonshire 1830 *Huntingdonshire 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
