N. (Nicholas) Rigby

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N. (Nicholas) Rigby

1800–1886

A 19th-century English Roman Catholic priest, he spent most of his ministry serving the missions of Egton Bridge and Ugthorpe in Yorkshire. He is remembered for a long life of parish work and for writing on Catholic questions of his day.

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Two Addresses One, to the Gentlemen of Whitby, Who Signed the Requisition, Calling a Meeting to Address the Queen, on the Late (So Called) Aggression of the Pope: and the Other, to the Protestant Clergy

Two Addresses One, to the Gentlemen of Whitby, Who Signed the Requisition, Calling a Meeting to Address the Queen, on the Late (So Called) Aggression of the Pope: and the Other, to the Protestant Clergy

by N. (Nicholas) Rigby

About the author

Born in 1800 at Walton-le-Dale near Preston, Lancashire, he went to Ushaw College at about age twelve and later served there for a time as a professor of elocution. He was ordained in September 1826 and briefly served at St. Mary's, Wycliffe, before being placed in charge of the united missions of Egton Bridge and Ugthorpe.

After several years there, he was moved to Stockton-on-Tees, where he worked energetically and helped establish both a church and a school. In 1838 he returned to Ugthorpe, where he remained for the rest of his life, becoming closely associated with the Catholic community in that part of Yorkshire.

He died at Ugthorpe on September 7, 1886. Sources consistently describe him as an English Roman Catholic priest, and his long ministry suggests a figure remembered more for steady pastoral service than for public fame.