 He studied for the Bar in London and while there met Patrick McDowel.He was an avid collector and gave Pigot many tunes which he added to among the Irish in London.While in London, Pigot and Duffy paid a call on Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Carlyle in April 1845 in order to defend the Irish and Irish Nationalism against Carlyle's attacks in "On Chartism" and other works.