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Darwin Correspondence Project

Horatio Piggot

1821–1913

Landowner, attorney, and solicitor. Practised in Chelmsford. Retired to Frant, near Tunbridge Wells, by 1871. Donated a herbarium of lichen specimens to the British Museum in 1889.

Sources

British Museum (Natural History) 1904–6, 1: 116

Census returns of England and Wales 1861 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG9/1079/33/21), 1871 (RG10/1050/78/7)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 November 2014)

England & Wales, non-conformist and non-parochial registers, 1567–1970 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 November 2014)

Bibliography

British Museum (Natural History). 1904–6. The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. 2 vols. London: the Trustees.

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