PIGGOTT-BROWN, Sir William Brian PIGOTT-BROWN 3rd Bt (1941-2020) - TITLE EXTINCT
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Richard R
Jun 3, 2020, 1:28:49 AM6/3/20
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From the Telegraph of 3 June 2020: PIGOTT-BROWN - Sir William Bt. Died peacefully in Cape Town on 1st June, aged 79. He will be much missed by his many friends. No memorial service. Wakes in Cape Town and London to be announced.
He was s of Capt Sir John Hargreaves PIGOTT-BROWN 2nd Bt (1913-ka1942) and (as her 1st h) Helen Violet Egerton (1917-2010, having m 2nd Capt Charles Radclyffe) d of Maj Gilbert Francis EGERTON-COTTON (1880-1971), scion of (not descended from) the COMBERMERE viscounts. He was unmarried and had been a baronet for more than 77 years. There's no heir to the title which is now EXTINCT.
He was s of Capt Sir John Hargreaves PIGOTT-BROWN 2nd Bt (1913-ka1942) and (as her 1st h) Helen Violet Egerton (1917-2010, having m 2nd Capt Charles Radclyffe) d of Maj Gilbert Francis EGERTON-COTTON (1880-1971), scion of (not descended from) the COMBERMERE viscounts. He was unmarried and had been a baronet for more than 77 years. There's no heir to the title which is now EXTINCT.
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Jun 3, 2020, 7:36:18 PM6/3/20
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Updated.
Richard R
Jun 5, 2020, 1:31:02 AM6/5/20
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Obit in the Times of 5 June 2020: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/register/sir-william-pigott-brown-bt-obituary-78dsbbwbz
Richard R
Jun 6, 2020, 2:44:24 AM6/6/20
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Telegraph obit 6 June:
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Sir William Pigott-Brown, Bt, champion amateur jockey turned bon viveur and playboy – obituary
‘The sporting baronet’ tried varied business ventures while gossip columns recorded his affairs, with tales of orgies and two-way mirrors
Sir William Pigott-Brown, 3rd Bt, who has died aged 79, inherited a large fortune at 21 and spent the remainder of his days cheerfully turning it into a smaller one.
Handsome in youth, Pigott-Brown had charm, a gift for friendship and a reputation for generosity. Women loved him (though none would get him to the altar)…
William Brian Pigott-Brown was born at Windsor on January 20 1941, the son of Capt Sir John Pigott-Brown, 2nd Bt, who was killed in battle in North Africa late the following year while serving with the Coldstream Guards. His son therefore inherited the title – created in 1902 for Alexander Hargreaves Brown, a Liberal and Liberal Unionist MP – a few weeks before his second birthday.
In 1948 his mother, Helen (known as “Dusé”), married Capt Charles Radclyffe, who broke in and schooled some of the star National Hunt horses, among them winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National. So it was no surprise when the young Pigott-Brown, after unsatisfactory spells with the family bank, Brown Shipley, and on an Australian sheep farm, became an amateur jump jockey.
…His retirement from the saddle in 1964 came two years after he had come into his £750,000 inheritance – a colossal sum in those days, when you could buy a very decent house for less than £10,000. He used his fortune to establish the Aston Upthorpe Stud in Oxfordshire.
…He died with no heir, and the baronetcy becomes extinct.
Sir William Pigott-Brown, 3rd Bt, born January 20 1941, died June 1 2020
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/05/sir-william-pigott-brown-bt-champion-amateur-jockey-turned-bon/
EXTRACT
Sir William Pigott-Brown, Bt, champion amateur jockey turned bon viveur and playboy – obituary
‘The sporting baronet’ tried varied business ventures while gossip columns recorded his affairs, with tales of orgies and two-way mirrors
Sir William Pigott-Brown, 3rd Bt, who has died aged 79, inherited a large fortune at 21 and spent the remainder of his days cheerfully turning it into a smaller one.
Handsome in youth, Pigott-Brown had charm, a gift for friendship and a reputation for generosity. Women loved him (though none would get him to the altar)…
William Brian Pigott-Brown was born at Windsor on January 20 1941, the son of Capt Sir John Pigott-Brown, 2nd Bt, who was killed in battle in North Africa late the following year while serving with the Coldstream Guards. His son therefore inherited the title – created in 1902 for Alexander Hargreaves Brown, a Liberal and Liberal Unionist MP – a few weeks before his second birthday.
In 1948 his mother, Helen (known as “Dusé”), married Capt Charles Radclyffe, who broke in and schooled some of the star National Hunt horses, among them winners of the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National. So it was no surprise when the young Pigott-Brown, after unsatisfactory spells with the family bank, Brown Shipley, and on an Australian sheep farm, became an amateur jump jockey.
…His retirement from the saddle in 1964 came two years after he had come into his £750,000 inheritance – a colossal sum in those days, when you could buy a very decent house for less than £10,000. He used his fortune to establish the Aston Upthorpe Stud in Oxfordshire.
…He died with no heir, and the baronetcy becomes extinct.
Sir William Pigott-Brown, 3rd Bt, born January 20 1941, died June 1 2020
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/05/sir-william-pigott-brown-bt-champion-amateur-jockey-turned-bon/
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