{{Short description|Politician and solicitor in New South Wales, Australia}} {{for|the Montana Supreme Court judge|William Trigg Pigott}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} thumb| '''William Hilson Pigott''' (10 March 1839{{spaced ndash}}13 March 1909) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in London to cabinet maker John Allpress Pigott and Margaret Hilson. His family moved to New South Wales in 1841 and Pigott became a solicitor's clerk, qualifying as a solicitor in 1863. In 1863 he married Laura Jane West, with whom he had two sons; a second marriage in 1883 to Louisa Matilda Jones produced a daughter. He practised as a solicitor in Grafton until joining a Sydney firm in 1864.<ref name="William Pigott NSW parl"/> A long-serving Petersham alderman, he was the first mayor from 1872 to 1880.<ref name="SMH Obituary"/> In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury, serving until his resignation in 1884,<ref name="William Pigott NSW parl"/> due to ill health. He was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1887, serving until 1907.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107268022 |title=Banquet to Mr.W. H. Pigott |newspaper=The Evening News |date=19 July 1884 |access-date=21 May 2021 |page=5 |via=Trove}}</ref> He was president of the Incorporated Law Institute of New South Wales from 1892 until 1908.<ref name="SMH Obituary"/>

Pigott died at Croydon in 1909 (aged 70).<ref name="William Pigott NSW parl">{{Cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr William Hilson Pigott (1839-1909) |former=Yes |access-date=1 May 2019 |id=745}}</ref><ref name="SMH Obituary">{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15043061 |title=Death of Mr W H Pigott |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=15 March 1909 |access-date=21 May 2021 |page=6 |via=Trove}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} &nbsp; {{s-start}} {{s-civ}} {{s-new|reason=Council proclaimed}} {{s-ttl|title=Mayor of Petersham | years=1872{{spaced ndash}}1880}} {{s-aft|after=Michael McMahon}} {{s-par|au-nsw-la}} {{s-bef|before=John Lucas |before2=Sir Henry Parkes}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Canterbury | years=1880{{spaced ndash}}1884 |with=William Henson / Henry Moses |with2=Septimus Stephen}} {{s-aft|after=Mark Hammond}} {{s-end}}

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