David Richard Pigot
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David Richard Pigot, PC, KC was one of the leading Irish judges of his time. His children included John Edward Pigot, a noted music collector and one of the founders of the National Gallery of Ireland
Kilworth, County Cork, Pigot's birthplace
Merrion Square- Pigot lived at No. 80
National Gallery of Ireland, which Pigot's son John did much to create.
Christopher Palles
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Christopher Palles was an Irish barrister, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and a judge for over 40 years. His biographer, Vincent Thomas Hyginus Delany, described him as "the greatest of the Irish
David Richard Pigot
…he does not seem to have had a "place in the country". Both Ball in The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 and Delaney in his biography of Pigot's successor Christopher Palles praise Pigot highly as a judge of great intelligence, high principles and integrity. Both agree that he had one serious fault - his habit of inquiring…
Christopher Palles