N. (Nicholas) Rigby

Born in 1800 and associated with Lancashire, Nicholas Rigby was an English Roman Catholic priest whose work reached readers beyond the pulpit. Records available online, including Project Gutenberg and a brief biographical summary, identify him as both a clergyman and an author active in the nineteenth century.

Rigby is best known today through religious and reflective writing rather than through a large literary canon. His surviving reputation suggests a writer interested in explaining Catholic belief in an engaging, direct way for ordinary readers.

He died in 1886. While detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm here, his continued presence in public-domain archives shows that his work remained worth preserving long after his lifetime.