Christopher Donald Pigott (7 April 1928 – 11 September 2022) was a British botanist who was the fourth Director, Cambridge University Botanic Garden (1984–1995), succeeding Max Walters.
[2][3] He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,[4] from 1946, where he was taught by two previous Directors, Humphrey Gilbert-Carter (1921–1950) and Max Walters (1973–1983).
Forming a friendship with the latter he was persuaded to spend the summer of 1949 in Uppsala and Helsinki universities where he was impressed by the mapping of the Scandinavian flora and returned to work with Walters on similar projects for the British Isles and used this method in his PhD thesis on Thyme.
On leaving Cambridge in 1995 he was succeeded by John Parker and was appointed to the chair in Biology at Lancaster University and subsequently as Emeritus professor.
[6][4] During Pigott's tenure as Director, the great storm of 1987 caused considerable damage to the Garden.