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Thomas Pingo (1714–1776) was an English
He married Mary in 1711 and they had 14 children, four of whom were notable. Their daughter Mary Pingo was an artist and designer; baptised in 1741, she died unmarried in 1819. Their sons
Thomas Pingo (1714–1776) was an English medal
A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be int ...
list and die engraver. He worked for the Royal Mint
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in London
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. Originally thought to have come from Italy
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in 1742, and born there in 1692, he was in fact the son of Thomas Pingo Sr (1688 – after 1743) of Plumbtree Court, London. The Pingo family first appeared in London in the 1650s in the Parish of St Martins-in-the-Fields
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.Christopher Eimer, The Pingo Family, British Art Medal Trust, London 1998, p.12-17.
His subjects included Charles Edward Stuart
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(Bonny Prince Charlie
Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (20 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart, grandson of James II and VII, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland and ...
, King George III of Great Britain
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, last Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (1763 - 1827) ]. His was appointed Assistant Engraver at the Mint in 1771.
Private life
He married Mary in 1711 and they had 14 children, four of whom were notable. Their daughter Mary Pingo was an artist and designer; baptised in 1741, she died unmarried in 1819. Their sons Lewis Pingo Lewis Pingo (1743 - 26 August 1830), was a noted eighteenth medallist and engraver. From a family of engravers and medallists, he was the son of the Assistant Engraver at the Mint, Thomas Pingo. He was also the brother of the engraver, John Pingo ...
(bap. 1743–1830) and John Pingo
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(bap 1738- 1827) also became noted medallists, Lewis succeeding his father as the Mint's Assistant Engraver in 1776. Another son, Benjamin Pingo
Benjamin Pingo (3 February 1749 – 8 July 1794), was a Herald and son of Thomas Pingo the engraver.
Pingo was baptised on 8 July 1749 in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn. He was the son of Thomas Pingo and his wife, Mary, daughter of Benjamin ...
(1749–94), was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant (1780–1786) and York Herald (1786–1794) in the College of Arms
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References
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pingo, Thomas 1714 births 1776 deaths British medallists