Piggott, J.R. 1940-

(Jan Piggott)

PERSONAL:

Surname is accented on first syllable; born September 4, 1940, in Knowle, England; son of John (in the army and in insurance business) and Gwendolen (a teacher) Piggott; married Cheryl Straumer (a librarian), June 22, 1968; children: Charles. Ethnicity: "Anglo-Saxon." Education: Oxford University, B.A., 1962, M.A., 1966; University of California, Davis, Ph.D. Politics: Conservative. Religion: Church of England. Hobbies and other interests: Art and literature, architecture, music.

ADDRESSES:

Home—London, England. Office—Dulwich College, London SE21 7LD, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, lecturer, 1963-67; Dulwich College, London, England, head of English department, 1972-2001, keeper of archives, 2001—.

MEMBER:

Society of Antiquaries (fellow).

WRITINGS:

Turner's Vignettes, Tate Gallery (London, England), 1993.

Shackleton, the Antarctic, and Endurance, Dulwich College (London, England), 2000.

Palace of the People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS:

J.R. Piggott told CA: "I write to share my excitement over discoveries I make for myself about the past. I also write to draw attention to unjustly neglected or forgotten people and institutions, to experience the imaginative glamour of the past, and to relate literature to the art of J.M.W. Turner."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

History Today, May, 2004, John Gardiner, review of Palace of the People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936, p. 74.