Henry Pigot

Sir Henry Pigot
Sir Henry Pigot
	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

General Sir Henry Pigot GCMG (1750 – 7 June 1840) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Born the son of Admiral

Civil Commissioner of Malta in February 1801. As civil commissioner, he accepted the demolition of the majority of the fortifications of Valletta, but this act was never done and the city walls survive largely intact to this day.^[2]

Pigot was colonel of the

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1837.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Bonello, Giovanni (18 November 2012). "Let's hide the majestic bastions". Times of Malta. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

Political offices
Preceded by Sir Alexander Ball	Civil Commissioner of Malta February 1801 – July 1801	Succeeded by Charles Cameron
Military offices
Preceded by Hon. Sir Charles James Greville	Colonel of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot 1836–1840	Succeeded by Sir Jasper Nicolls
Preceded by James Stuart	Colonel of the 82nd (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot 1798–1836	Succeeded by Sir John Wilson

[odnb-1] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

[2] Bonello, Giovanni (18 November 2012). "Let's hide the majestic bastions". Times of Malta. Retrieved 5 October 2014.

[3] Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

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v t e Civil commissioners, governors and governors-general of Malta
Civil commissioners (1799–1813)	Ball Pigot Cameron Ball Oakes
Governors (1813–1964)	Maitland Rawdon-Hastings Ponsonby Bouverie Stuart More O'Ferrall Reid Le Marchant Storks Grant Straubenzee Borton Simmons Torrens Smyth Lyon Fremantle Grenfell Clarke Grant Rundle Methuen Plumer Congreve Du Cane Campbell Bonham-Carter Dobbie Gort Schreiber Douglas Creasy Laycock Grantham Dorman
Governors-general (1964–1974)	Dorman Mamo