_The Evening Post_, 15 February 1924:
OBITUARY
DR. ERNEST RIGG
A private cable reports the death in #England of Dr. Ernest Thompson #Rigg, the eldest son of John and Hannah Rigg, of Seatoun….
… dux of Wellington College in 1901, he entered Victoria University College the following year…. Three years later he graduated as Bachelor of Science. He then went to London University, where he … obtained the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. In 1911 Dr. Rigg visited New Zealand, and held the position of medical superintendent at the Gisborne Hospital. In 1912 he returned to London and entered Brompton Hospital,… specialising in tubercular diseases. In 1913 he became Doctor of Medicine, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Member of the Royal College of #Surgeons. Dr. Rigg then settled at Brigg, Lincolnshire,… as medical officer in the detection and prevention of tubercular diseases… until his death.
His many friends in Wellington, [who esteemed him] as much on his unassuming goodness as on his brilliant scholarship, will very much regret his [death at] only forty years of age. Dr. Rigg was an active member of the Society of Friends, and a broad-minded, big-hearted man…
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