Major-General Sir Robert Anthony Pigot, 7th Baronet CB

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DL RM (6 July 1915 – 29 November 1986) was a

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officer. Son of George Douglas Hugh Pigot (2 August 1883 – 26 May 1959) and Hersey Elizabeth Maltby. He was educated at Stowe. He was commissioned into the RM in 1934 and served during the Second World War, and afterwards. His first marriage was on 7 October 1942 to Honor Amilia Gibbon (18 July 1915 – 26 November 1966), daughter of Captain Wilfred St Martin Gibbon. They had 2 children. Louise, born 21 July 1943, who married Peter Mellor of Newton, IOW. George Hugh, (8th Baronet) born 28 November 1946. He was appointed OBE in 1959 and CB in the

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. He succeeded his uncle as 7th Baronet in 1977.‘PIGOT, Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert (Anthony)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201
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/ref> In 1968, he married secondly, Sarah Anne Colville. The couple lived at Bembridge. They had 2 children, Robert and Sophie.

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