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Biographical entry Pigot, Edward Francis (1858 - 1929)

Born: 18 September 1858
Dundrum, Ireland
Died: 22 May 1929
North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Seismologist and Astronomer

Summary

Edward Francis Pigot was a physics teacher at the Riverview College, Sydney 1887 -92 and was the founder and Director of the Riverview College Observatory 1907-29.

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Archival resources

Jesuit Archives, Hawthorn

Edward Francis Pigot - Records, 1887 - 1920; Jesuit Archives, Hawthorn. Details

St Ignatius College Archives, Riverview

Edward Francis Pigot - Records, 1909 - 1920; St Ignatius College Archives, Riverview. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Drake, L. A., 'Pigot, Edward Francis (1858-1929), Jesuit Priest, Astronomer and Seismologist', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 230-231. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110235b.htm. Details

Online Resources

'Pigot, Edward Francis', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000712p.htm. Details
National Library of Australia, 'Pigot, Edward Francis', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462215. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 August 2006

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