He was Rural Dean of Halifax from 1875 and held an honorary canonry in the Chapter of Ripon Cathedral. He was also chaplain to the 2nd West York Yeomanry Cavalry and to the Rifle Volunteers. In 1888 he became Dean of Chichester.[5][6]
Pigou found life to be unbearably sleepy in Chichester and castigated it unsparingly complaining that there was so little to do.[7] While at Chichester he absented himself a great deal and was overjoyed, when after three years, he became Dean of Bristol, a post that offered him more scope for his energy.[7][8]
Family
On 3 January 1860 he married Mary, née Somers; they had two daughters.[8] One daughter, Ernestine, was married to Alfred Inglis (1856–1919),[9] who played cricket for Kent.[10]
Mary died in 1868, and in January of the following year he married Harriet Maude, née Gambier.[8]
^ abLowther Clarke, W.K. (1959). Steer, Francis W. (ed.). Chichester Cathedral in the Nineteenth Century. The Chichester Papers (No. 14 ed.). Chichester: Chichester City Council. p. 16. OCLC24119958.
^ abcPhilip Barrett, ‘Pigou, Francis (1832–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 25 Jan 2011.
