Thomas Pingo

Originally thought to have come from Italy in 1742, and born there in 1692,[1][2] he was in fact the son of Thomas Pingo Sr (1688 – after 1743) of Plumbtree Court, London.

[3] His subjects included Charles Edward Stuart (Bonny Prince Charlie, King George III of Great Britain and Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, last Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück (1763–1827)).

The same year, Pingo engraved the dies used for the Botetourt Medals of the College of William & Mary in Virginia.

[4] His daughter Mary Pingo was an artist and designer;[5] baptised in 1741, she died unmarried in 1819.

Another son, Benjamin Pingo (1749–94), was Rouge Dragon Pursuivant (1780–1786) and York Herald (1786–1794) in the College of Arms.