George William Tighe (25 February 1776 – March 1837) was an Irish agricultural theorist who spent much of his life in Italy.
A scholar of Claire Clairmont's life characterises Tighe as achieving "some degree of fame for his agricultural writings".
[4] He had a copy of Humphry Davy's Elements of Agricultural Chemicals which he apparently lent to Percy Bysshe Shelley, captivating the young traveller's attention for a week of study.
[5] Tighe was living in Rome when he met the aristocrat, who was visiting the city with her then husband, the 2nd Earl Mountcashell, accompanied by her friend the memoirist Katherine Wilmot.
[7] The name comes from the only children's book written by the pioneer educator and proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who served as Margaret King's governess and inspired great devotion.
She introduced them all to a new intellectual and social circle in Pisa, and helped Mary set up her household, finding them pleasant lodgings and advising on servants.
[10] In 1821, Tighe became involved in the attempts of Clairmont to remove Allegra, her daughter by Lord Byron, from a convent in Ravenna.