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Edward Rigby (1747–1821) was an English physician, writer, and local politician. ==Life== The son of John Rigby, by his wife Sarah (d. 1773), daughter of John Taylor, he was born at Chowbent, Lancashire, on 27 December 1747. One of his sisters married Dr. Caleb Hillier Parry, and became the mother of Sir William Edward Parry. Educated at Norwich School and Warrington Academy, Rigby was apprenticed in 1762 to David Martineau, surgeon, of Norwich, and then studied in London. Admitted a member of the Corporation of Surgeons on 4 May 1769, he married in the same year, and settled in Norwich. In 1786 Rigby took the lead in establishing the Norfolk Benevolent Society for the relief of the widows and orphans of medical men.〔 In July 1789 he visited France and other parts of the continent, witnessing the storming of the Bastille. A practical agriculturist, he was the friend of Thomas William Coke of Holkham, he experimented on his own farm at Framingham Earl, about five miles from Norwich.〔 In 1783 Rigby became a member of the corporation of guardians of Norwich, and promoted the economical administration of the Poor Laws. Meeting with much opposition, he resigned in the following year.〔 He became alderman in 1802 in a very tight contest for the North Ward, sheriff in 1803, and mayor of Norwich in 1805, presiding over a meeting addressing the issue of smallpox in the city.〔Peter Eade, ''Some Account of the Parish of St. Giles, Norwich'' (1886), pp. 323–4; (archive.org. )〕 Rigby is said to have made known the flying shuttle to Norwich manufacturers, and to have introduced vaccination.〔 In politics Rigby was a Whig, and a supporter of William Windham. In 1794, however, when Windham became Secretary at War and had to stand again for Norwich, Rigby was one of the disillusioned Whigs who backed James Mingay against him, and proposed the candidate. Windham was elected, but Mingay's reputation as a Whig was boosted.〔Jewson, p. 42 and p. 50.〕〔(historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Mingay, James (1752-1812), of New Place, Thetford, Norf. and Ashfield Lodge, nr. Bury, Suff.'' )〕 Rigby died on 27 October 1821, and was buried at Framingham.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Rigby (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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