The Very Rev Francis Pigou , DD (3 January 1832 – 25 January 1916) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th.
He was born in Baden-Baden[1][2] and educated at Ripon Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1856[3] and became a Curate at St Andrew, Stoke Talmage, then Chaplain at Marbœuf Chapel, Paris. He held incumbencies at St Peter, Vere Street, St Philip, Regent Street and St George, Doncaster during which time he became an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen[4]. He was Rural Dean of Halifax from 1875 to 1888 when he became Dean of Chichester[5].
He found life in Chichester to be unbearably sleepy, so after three years there he became Dean of Bristol, a post that offered him more scope for his energy.[6] He died at Bristol on 25 January 1916.[7].
On 3 January 1860 he married Mary, née Somers; they had two daughters.[6] One daughter, Ernestine, was married to Alfred Inglis (1856–1919),[8] who played cricket for Kent.[9]
Mary died in 1868, and in January of the following year he married Harriet Maude, née Gambier.[6]
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| Preceded by John William Burgon |
Dean of Chichester 1888 – 1891 |
Succeeded by Richard William Randall |
| Preceded by Gilbert Elliott |
Dean of Bristol 1891 – 1916 |
Succeeded by St John Basil Wynne Willson |
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