William Pigg

He was the founder and namesake of Piggs Peak, where he discovered a gold reef in 1884.

[1] Pigg married in 1862 and lived with his wife on his estate in the area, where he farmed sugar.

[1][2] He mined the upper part of a weathered quartz reef there while his partner, Edward Button, was in England.

[2] This boulder remains preserved today and can be viewed at the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History.

[3][4] Pigg amassed significant wealth after he discovered a gold deposit in the nearby hills on 26 March 1884.