For the American long-distance runner, see Richard Piggott (athlete).
Richard Pigott
Pigott as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1889
Born
1835 (1835)
Ratoath, County Meath, Ireland
Died
1 March 1889(1889-03-01) (aged 53–54)
Madrid, Spain
Cause of death
Suicide
Occupation
Journalist
Known for
The '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.
RichardPigott (1835 – 1 March 1889) was an Irish journalist, best known for his forging of evidence that Charles Stewart Parnell of the Irish National...
the Phoenix Park killings of 1882, were shown to have been forged by RichardPigott. The Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1890, following the revelation...
Cabinet. The story was closely connected to a set of forged letters by RichardPigott, which attempted to implicate Charles Stuart Parnell with supporting...
insincere. It emerged that the letters were forgeries written by journalist RichardPigott, and Parnell was personally vindicated by the Parnell Commission in...
Shem's attack on his father in this way mirrors the attempt of forger RichardPigott to incriminate Parnell in the Phoenix Park Murders of 1882 by means...
ignominious end, might have been inspired by the fate of RichardPigott. The author of the "Pigott forgeries" had in 1889 tried to defame Charles Stewart...
September 1888 and November 1889. In February 1889, one of the witnesses, RichardPigott, admitted to having forged the letters; he then fled to Madrid, where...
Johanna Paton Pigott (born ca. 1955) is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and screenwriter. Her best known hit songs are Dragon's "Rain" which...
daughters. 27A (1974) Richard In Search of Anna (1978) Tony The Odd Angry Shot (1979) Medic The Chain Reaction (1980) Jr. Const. Pigott Heatwave (1982) Stephen...
(born 1925) Jean LaBanta (born c. 1879) Maharaja Nandakumar (died 1775) RichardPigott (1835–1889) Piligrim (died 991) James Reavis (1843–1914) Alves dos Reis...
the authenticity of the letters attributed to Parnell, which forced RichardPigott into the witness box and led to the collapse of that part of the case...
the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia (born 1827). 29 February – RichardPigott, newspaper editor, suicide (born 1835. 16 March – Hans Crocker, lawyer...
Fenians, eventually (in 1890) proving the letters forgeries written by RichardPigott. 29 March – the Irish Crimes Act of 1887 is introduced by Arthur Balfour...
Hunter also composed John Farnham's hit song "Age of Reason" with Johanna Pigott and music for film Daydream Believer (1991) and TV series Heartbreak High...
director. He was born in Glounthaune, County Cork, the eldest child of RichardPigott Beamish and his wife Hulda Elizabeth Constance. Educated at Haileybury...
Robert Pigott (1665–1746), of Chetwynd, Shropshire and Chesterton, Huntingdonshire, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of...
sides of the Atlantic. In the early 1880s she worked as sub-editor for RichardPigott (whom she described as a "fine fat rat") on The Irishman newspaper....
coheiress of Valentine Pigott of Loughton, Buckinghamshire, with whom he had a daughter, and secondly in 1602, Dorothy, the daughter of Richard Ingoldsby, with...