Thomas Pingo
He worked for the Royal Mint in London. Originally thought to have come from Italy in 1742, and born there in 1692, he was in fact the son of Thomas Pingo Sr (1688 – after 1743) of Plumbtree Court, London. The Pingo family first appeared in London in the 1650s in the Parish of St Martins-in-the-Fields.
Also recorded as Thomas Pingo junior
Thomas Pingo
Thomas Pingo · Morpurgo, Their Majesties' Royall Colledge: William and Mary in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1976). Pg. 149 · Public domain
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- sources differ (1714 and 1692).
- Occupation
- sculptor.
- Languages
- English.
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He worked for the Royal Mint in London. Originally thought to have come from Italy in 1742, and born there in 1692, he was in fact the son of Thomas Pingo Sr (1688 – after 1743) of Plumbtree Court, London. The Pingo family first appeared in London in the 1650s in the Parish of St Martins-in-the-Fields.
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His subjects included Charles Edward Stuart, King George III of Great Britain, and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, last Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (1763–1827). His was appointed Assistant Engraver at the Mint in 1771. The same year, Pingo engraved the dies used for the Botetourt Medals of the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
• Illustration — Mary Pingo's 1858 design His daughter Mary Pingo was an artist and designer; baptised in 1741, she died unmarried in 1819. Their sons Lewis Pingo (baptised 1743–1830) and John Pingo (baptised 1738–1827) also became noted medallists, Lewis succeeding his father as the Mint's Assistant Engraver in 1776. Another son, Benjamin Pingo (1749–94), was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant (1780–1786) and York Herald (1786–1794) in the College of Arms.
Obverse die of the Botetourt Medal
Thomas Pingo · Morpurgo, Their Majesties' Royall Colledge: William and Mary in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1976). Pg. 149
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1714
Thomas Pingo born.
1776
Thomas Pingo died on 1 January 1776.
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The authorities additionally record the heading Thomas Pingo junior. His recorded language was English. He was the child of Thomas Pingo senior. 4 children are recorded: Lewis Pingo, John Pingo, Mary Pingo and Henry Pingo.
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