Pigott was appointed organist at Magdalen College, Oxford in January 1686 and returned to London to play the Father Smith organ at the Temple Church in 1688.
[1] Pigott has been tentatively identified as the manuscript copyist known as "London A" by his handwriting and by his known association with Henry Purcell and other notable composers of the time.
Pigott also collaborated with John Blow, William Croft and Jeremiah Clarke in the production of A Choice Collection of Ayres for the Harpsicorde (London, 1700).
[1] His setting of Abraham Cowley's poem The Separation, appears in a compilation called The Banquet of Musick published in volumes between 1688 and 1692.
[5] John's son, another Francis Pigott, was organist at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle until 1756.