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| - Sir George Bettesworth Piggott (30 July 1867-14 March 1952) was a barrister, colonial judge and a member of the London County Council. The son of Fraser Piggott, a Sussex magistrate, and his wife Fanny Margaret Bush. His father received a post as a clerk of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the family settled in Kensington. George attened Westminster School and studied law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1888. After practising for some time on the South Eastern Circuit he left England. In 1896 he was appointed HM Judicial Officer and Vice-Consul of the British Central Africa Protectorate (modern Malawi). He was largely responsible for organising a judicial system for the protectorate which had been established in 1891. He fought as a volunteer officer in various wars with the natives of the area for which in 1894-98 he was awarded the Central Africa Medal and clasp. He was promoted to HM Judicial Officer for Central Africa in 1898. In 1900 he moved to the Protectorate of Zanzibar where he was appointed HM Assistant Judge. In 1904 he entered the service of the Ottoman Empire, taking a judicial post in Constantinople. This appointment coincided with the revolution by the "Young Turks" movement. In 1911 he returned to Africa to sit in Appellate Jurisdiction as President of the Appeal Court for Eastern Africa and as a Judge in Arab matters on a tribunal for the Sultan of Zanzibar. He returned to England and in 1913 was a Municipal Reform Party candidate for the London County Council at Battersea. He failed to be elected. Piggott did serve five years on the county council, although he never faced the electorate again. Due the outbreak of World War One local elections were suspended, and councils were given the power to fill casual vacancies by appointment. When a seat fell vacant at Tower Hamlets, Mile End in 1917, Pigott was appointed. He was Chairman of the Special Local Tribunal for London and a Member of London Appeal Tribunal dealing with cases where men who had been conscripted for military service could appeal on grounds of their special occupation or circumstances. He was created a Knight of the British Empire in the 1918 New Years' Honours for this work. In 1919 county council elections resumed. Piggott and his Municipal Reform colleague, Herbert Golds, were the only candidates nominated to fill two seats at Wandsworth, Clapham. They were accordingly declared elected unopposed. In 1922 he announced he would not be contesting the upcoming council elections due to pressure of public service commitments. He was twice married. His first marriage was to Amy Spiller in 1904. She died in 1909, and he married Nadine Sophia Charlotte Proctor-Beauchamp, daughter of Sir Reginald Proctor-Beauchamp, 5th Baronet, in 1915. They divorced in 1921.
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