Stephen Jordan Rigaud was an English clergyman and schoolmaster.

He was appointed as the senior assistant master of Westminster School

Westminster School

The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain...

, and was put in charge of a boarding house from 1846 - 1850. The house in question is now known as Rigaud's. His leadership of the house was questionable (he was known to have sexually abused young boys on at least three occasions), and his successor was forced to work hard to bring the house up to moral standards. In 1850 he became head master of Ipswich School

Ipswich School

Ipswich School is a co-educational public school for girls and boys aged 3 to 18. Situated in Suffolk, England in the town of Ipswich, it was founded in its current form as The King's School, Ipswich by Thomas Wolsey in 1528....

, where it is said he caned boys as a sexual sado-masochistic act. He was made Bishop of Antigua

Antigua

Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...

 in 1858 and died of yellow fever

Yellow fever

Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family....

the following year.