Thomas Herbert Pigot, QC (19 May 1921 – 10 September 1998) was an English barrister and judge. He was Common Serjeant of London from 1984 to 1990.

Thomas Pigot
QC
Common Serjeant of London
In office
1984–1990

Born in Wigan in 1921, the son of a company secretary and of a teacher, Pigot was educated at Manchester Grammar School, where he was a scholar, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a Somerset scholar and took first-class honours in jurisprudence.[1][2] During the Second World War, after training at Sandhurst, he was commissioned into the Welch Regiment, before transferring to the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.[1][2] He saw action in North Africa, and was wounded and taken prisoner by the Italians in 1943 in Tunisia.[1][2]

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  1. ^ a b c "His Honour Thomas Pigot". The Times. 9 October 1998. p. 27.
  2. ^ a b c "His Honour Thomas Pigot". The Daily Telegraph. 24 September 1998. p. 33.