Robert Piggot

May 20, 1795 (age 92)

New York City, New York, United States

When he became of age, he formed a partnership with his fellow student, Charles Goodman, and together they engraved many plates for the Port Folio, the Analectic, and other publications. Virtually all of their works were signed Goodman & Piggot or C. Goodman & R. Piggot, but the former was the better engraver and artist. After a few years in business the firm was dissolved when the senior partner decided to study law. Piggot opened a bookstore in Philadelphia and acted as agent to the Adult Sunday School of the city. He placed himself under the instruction of the Rev. James Wiltbank, who taught him the classical languages, and he received deacon's orders on November 30, 1823. The same year he associated himself with the newly organized church of St. Matthew's, Francisville, Philadelphia, as lay reader, and in 1824, on the day the church was consecrated, he was elected its first rector, although he was not ordained a priest by Bishop William White until May 11, 1825. Before that time he had resigned his rectorship and had accepted a call to another Pennsylvania church. He retired in 1883 and died in Sykesville, on July 23, 1887, at which time he was the last surviving clergyman of those ordained by the first bishop of Pennsylvania.

Robert Piggot

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Background

He was born on May 20, 1795 in New York City, New York, United States

Education

At the age of seventeen he went to Philadelphia, where he was apprenticed to David Edwin to learn the art of stipple engraving.

Career

When he became of age, he formed a partnership with his fellow student, Charles Goodman, and together they engraved many plates for the Port Folio, the Analectic, and other publications. Virtually all of their works were signed Goodman & Piggot or C. Goodman & R. Piggot, but the former was the better engraver and artist. After a few years in business the firm was dissolved when the senior partner decided to study law.

Piggot opened a bookstore in Philadelphia and acted as agent to the Adult Sunday School of the city. He placed himself under the instruction of the Rev. James Wiltbank, who taught him the classical languages, and he received deacon's orders on November 30, 1823. The same year he associated himself with the newly organized church of St. Matthew's, Francisville, Philadelphia, as lay reader, and in 1824, on the day the church was consecrated, he was elected its first rector, although he was not ordained a priest by Bishop William White until May 11, 1825. Before that time he had resigned his rectorship and had accepted a call to another Pennsylvania church.

He retired in 1883 and died in Sykesville, on July 23, 1887, at which time he was the last surviving clergyman of those ordained by the first bishop of Pennsylvania.

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Robert Piggot was elected the first rector of church of St. Matthew's, Francisville, although he was not ordained a priest. He was also popular serving in various Episcopal parishes in Pennsylvania and in Smyrna, having become a missionary of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania. Later as the reward he was appointed the rector of the parish of the Holy Trinity, Sykesville, Maryland.

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tutor:: James Wiltbank
tutor:: David Edwin
Partner:: Charles Goodman

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