Sir Robert Pigot, 7th Baronet

Major-General Sir Robert Anthony Pigot, 7th Baronet CB OBE DL RM (6 July 1915 – 30 November 1986) was a Royal Marines officer. He was commissioned into the RM in 1934 and served during the Second World War, and afterwards.

He was appointed OBE in 1959 and CB in the 1964 New Year Honours. He succeeded his uncle as 7th Baronet in 1977.[1]

In 1968, he married Sarah Anne Colville. The couple lived at Bembridge. Lady Pigot was appointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, June 2015, for her charitable work with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on the Isle of Wight.[2]

References
  1. ‘PIGOT, Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert (Anthony)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 27 Dec 2013
  2. "Queen's Birthday Honours List 2015". Guardian.
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