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Richard Pigott
An illustration of a rather rotund, bald man with a long, white beard who is wearing a monocle and dressed in black whilst holding a quill pen.
Pigott as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1889
Born1835 (1835)
Ratoath, County Meath, Ireland
Died1 March 1889(1889-03-01) (aged 53–54)
Madrid, Spain
Cause of deathSuicide
OccupationJournalist
Known forThe 'Pigott Papers' forgery

Richard Pigott (1835 – 1 March 1889) was an Irish journalist, best known for his forging of evidence that Charles Stewart Parnell of the Irish National Land League had been sympathetic to the perpetrators of the Phoenix Park Murders. Parnell successfully sued for libel and Pigott shot himself.

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