Lewis Pingo

'''Lewis Pingo''' (1743 - 26 August 1830), was an eighteenth century medallist and engraver.<ref name="OxfordDNB">{{cite web |author=W. W. Wroth |title=LEWIS PINGO |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.001.0001/odnb-9780192683120-e-22297 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=1 April 2023 |ref=OxfordDNB |date=1895|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.013.22297 }}</ref> From a family of engravers and medallists, he was the son of the Assistant Engraver at the Mint, Thomas Pingo. He was also the brother of the engraver, John Pingo and the York Herald, Benjamin Pingo.<ref name="PINGOFAM">{{cite ODNB |author=W. W. Wroth |title=PINGO FAMILY |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-63939 |access-date=1 April 2023 |ref=OxfordDNB |date=1895|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/63939 }}</ref>

==Career== In 1776 he was appointed to succeed his father as assistant-engraver at the mint where he served until 1779 when he was appointed chief engraver.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/> Pingo engraved the dies for the shillings and sixpences of George III in the issue of 1787 and the second variety of the Maundy money of George III.<ref name="Hawkins">{{cite book |last1=Hawkins |first1=Edward |title=The Silver Coins of England |date=1841 |publisher=E. Lumley |location=London |page=411}}</ref><ref name="Hawkins416">{{cite book |last1=Hawkins |first1=Edward |title=The Silver Coins of England |date=1841 |publisher=E. Lumley |location=London |page=416}}</ref> He also engraved dies for the three-shilling Bank token and for the East India Company's copper coinage.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Urban |first1=Sylvanus |title=The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle |date=1818 |volume=88 |issue=1 |page=180 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcdDAQAAMAAJ}}</ref> He made patterns for the guinea, seven-shilling piece, penny and halfpenny of George III.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crowther |first1=Geoffrey |title=A Guide to English Pattern Coins in Gold, Silver, Copper, and Pewter: From Edward I. to Victoria, With Their Value |date=1887 |publisher=L.U. Gill |location=London |page=36}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Montagu |first1=Hyman |title=The Copper, Tin and Bronze Coinage and Patterns for Coins of England |date=1885 |publisher=Rollin & Feuardent |location=London |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGg-AQAAMAAJ}}</ref> Among Pingo's medals may be noticed: medal of Dr. Richard Mead, struck in 1773; the Royal Society Copley medal, with bust of Captain J. Cook, 1776; Freemasons' Hall medal, 1780; ‘Defence of Gibraltar,’ 1782; Christ's Hospital medal, reverse, open bible; medal of William Penn.<ref name="Hawkins675">{{cite book |last1=Hawkins |first1=Edward |title=The Silver Coins of England |date=1841 |publisher=E. Lumley |location=London |page=675}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cochran- Patrick |first1=Robert |title=Catalogue of the medals of Scotland |date=1884 |location=London |page=108}}</ref><ref name="Hawkins348">{{cite book |last1=Hawkins |first1=Edward |title=The Silver Coins of England |date=1841 |publisher=E. Lumley |location=London |page=348}}</ref> His medals are signed L. P. and L. PINGO.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/>

==Personal life== Lewis Pingo was born in the year 1743 in London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lewis Pingo 1743 - 1830 |url=https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp75706/lewis-pingo |website=Collection |publisher=The Science Museum Group |access-date=20 September 2023}}</ref> He married twice and had eight daughters.<ref name="PINGOFAM"/> One of his wives was Sarah Rowley, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet, one of their daughters, Sarah Pingo married John Horton of Sheriffhales Manor, Shifnal and was the grandmother of Mary Julia Horton who married John Moore Lester.<ref name="PINGOFAM"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George Edward |title=The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes |date=1900 |location=Gloucester |page=253}}</ref>

Pingo died at Camberwell on 26 August 1830.<ref name="OxfordDNB"/>

==Gallery== <gallery widths="220" perrow="4"> File:1783 Royal Society of London Medal ND by Lewis Pingo in James Cook's Memory, obverse.jpg|1783 Royal Society of London Medal File:George III guinea MET DP-1424-019.jpg|George III Guinea File:George III guinea MET DP-1424-020.jpg|George III Guinea File:George III guinea, "Military" type MET DP-1424-021.jpg|Military George III Guinea File:George III guinea, "Military" type MET DP-1424-022.jpg|Military George III Guinea </gallery>

==References== {{cite DNB |wstitle=Pingo, Lewis |last=Wroth |first=Warwick William |authorlink=Warwick William Wroth |volume=45 |pages=314–315 |vb=1}} {{reflist}}

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