Stephen Peter Rigaud
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Rigaud was the son of Stephen Rigaud, Observer at Kew Observatory. The family was French Protestant.[1] He lived at 21 Richmond Green in Richmond, Surrey (now Richmond, London).[2]
Published works
- Historical essay on the first publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia (First published 1838)
Legacy
Rigaud's papers, purchased at Sotheby's in 1978, are held at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.[1]
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford has a portrait by his uncle John Francis Rigaud. "Peter Rigaud and Mary Anne Rigaud", painted in 1778 when Rigaud was aged four, shows him and his elder sister Mary Anne posing in a park landscape with Kew Observatory in the background.[3] Although described here as Richmond Park, topographical considerations make it more likely that the park portrayed is Old Deer Park, where the observatory is situated.
His eldest son, Stephen Jordan Rigaud (1816–1859), was an English clergyman and schoolmaster who became Bishop of Antigua.
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