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for his health. Presumably his health recovered, as he was able to continue with his judicial duties for another eighteen years, and died in office on 22 December 1873. He was buried, alongside his wife
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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 into the most minute details of litigation, which tended to greatly prolong the length of hearings. Ball states however that the
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In private life, the judge, like his son John, was a highly knowledgeable musician. He also shared John's enthusiasm for the
National Gallery project, and many of the earliest discussions of the project took place in his house in Merrion Square. He was a member of the
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regarded this with indulgence as a very minor fault in a judge for whom they felt the greatest respect. Delaney, writing in 1960, noted that a Pigot judgement was still a strong authority for counsel to have on their side.
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284:"Pigot, David Richard"
266:King's Inns Admission Papers
104:Attorney-General for Ireland
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872:Henry George Hughes
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827:David Richard Pigot
702:St George Caulfeild
307:Ball, F. Elrington
247:Royal Irish Academy
121:He lived at No. 80
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84:called to the Bar
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