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===Background=== Smyth-Pigott's birth name was John Hugh Smyth. He was born in Somerset around 1853.<ref>{{cite web |title=1901 England Census. 2 Clapham Common, North Hackney, London. RG13/211. Page 1/5. Schedule 2. |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/2618355:7814?tid=&pid=&queryId=a3b4ea87-ad23-40e4-b114-109bf520bb7e&_phsrc=CtQ6&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry.co.uk|url-access=subscription |publisher=H.M. Government |access-date=25 May 2024 |quote=John Hugh Smyth-Pigott, age 48, minister (Congregational), born Somersit, Broadley. Wife Catherine Smyth-Pigott, aged 49.}}</ref> He had wealthy parents, and was an [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] graduate, but he began his career as a sailor.<ref name="Wells Journal 25 March 1927" /> After ordination as an [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] clergyman in 1882,<ref name="Westminster Gazette 22 March 1927" >{{cite news |title=Man who posed as Messiah. J.H. Smyth-Pigott dies at Abode of Love. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002947/19270322/012/0002 |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=Westminster Gazette |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=22 March 1927 |page=2 col.2}}</ref> he became a [[curate]] and [[The Salvation Army|Salvation Army]] officer. He died of [[influenza]], and his funeral took place in the Agapemone grounds on 24 March 1927.<ref name="Wells Journal 25 March 1927" >{{cite news |title=Death of Smyth-Pigott |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000308/19270325/167/0008 |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=Wells Journal |agency=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |date=25 March 1927 |page=8 col.5}}</ref>
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