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Thomas Pingo (1714–1776) was an English

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list and die engraver. He worked for the

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. Originally thought to have come from

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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

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. His subjects included

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, King

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, and

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, 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

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s of the

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Private life

His daughter Mary Pingo was an artist and designer; baptised in 1741, she died unmarried in 1819. Their sons

Lewis Pingo Lewis Pingo (1743 - 26 August 1830), was a noted eighteenth medallist and engraver. From a family of engravers and medallists, he was the son of the Assistant Engraver at the Mint, Thomas Pingo. He was also the brother of the engraver, John Pin ...

(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 Benjamin Pingo (3 February 1749 – 8 July 1794), was a Herald and son of Thomas Pingo the engraver. Pingo was baptised on 8 July 1749 in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn. He was the son of Thomas Pingo and his wife, Mary, daughter of Benjami ...

(1749–94), was

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(1780–1786) and

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(1786–1794) in the

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References

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