However, in 1919 he returned to Dublin and became pathologist and medical inspector under the Local Government Board and the professor of forensic and preventive medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1920. He served as the professor of preventive medicine and bacteriology at Trinity College from 1924 to 1950. In 1936, Bigger was appointed dean of the medical school at Trinity College where he served until 1939. He was first elected to the Seanad at a by-election on 22 November 1947 by the University of Dublin constituency. The vacancy was caused by the appointment of T. C. Kingsmill Moore as a judge of the High Court. He was re-elected at the 1948 election. He did not contest the 1951 election. He married Patricia Mai Curtin in 1916 and they had one son and one daughter. Bigger died on 17 August 1951. Bibliography
1935 - Handbook of bacteriology for students and practitioners of medicine
1941 - Man Against Microbe

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However, in 1919 he returned to Dublin and became pathologist and medical inspector under the Local Government Board and the professor of forensic and preventive medicine
at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1920. He served as the professor of preventive medicine and bacteriology at Trinity College from 1924 to 1950. In 1936, Bigger was appointed dean of the medical school at Trinity College where he served until 1939. He was first elected to the Seanad at a by-election on 22 November 1947 by the University of Dublin constituency. The vacancy was caused by the appointment of T. C. Kingsmill Moore as a judge of the High Court. They were re-elected at the 1948 election.  He did not contest the 1951 election. He married Patricia Mai Curtin in 1916 and they had one son and one daughter. Bigger died on 17 August 1951. Bibliography
 1935-Handbook of bacteriology for students and practitioners of medicine
 1941-Man Against Microbe
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 Category:1891 births
 Category:1951 deaths
 Category: Independent members of Seanad Éireann
 Category: Members of the 5th Seanad
 Category: Members of the 6th Seanad
 Category: Irish scholars and academics
 Category: Academics of Trinity College Dublin
 Category: Members of Seanad Éireann for the University of Dublin