BRIGGS, George. Second lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec. 1824; colonel 18 Feb. 1861 to 6 May 1867; M.G. 6 May 1867. d. Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 29 July 1875 in 80 year.
BRIGGS, Right Rev. John. b. Manchester 20 May 1788; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s college Ushaw; sub-deacon 1812, deacon 1813 and priest 1814; had charge of Chester 1818–32; pres. of Ushaw 28 March 1832 to 11 Aug. 1836; co-adjutor of Bishop Penswick in Northern district Jany. 1833; consecrated as Bishop of Trachis in Thessalia 29 Jany. 1833; vicar apostolic of Northern district Feb. 1836 and of Yorkshire district July 1840; bishop of Beverley 29 Sep. 1850 to 7 Nov. 1860 when he resigned; enthroned in St. George’s church York 13 Feb. 1851; a Count of the Holy Roman empire. d. at his house York 4 Jany. 1861. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii, 396–8 (1877); The Lamp iii, 163 (1851), portrait.
BRIGGS, John (eld. child of James Briggs, physician general Madras, who d. about 1830). b. Madras 18 Sep. 1785; ed. at Eton 1794–9; lieut. 15 Madras N.I. 10 July 1801; resident at Sattara Jany. 1823 to Jany. 1827; senior comr. in Mysore 1831 to 13 Nov. 1832; resident at Nagpore Dec. 1832 to March 1835; colonel 13 Madras N.I. 16 Nov. 1836 to 1869; general 6 Feb. 1861; took the chair at meeting of Anti-corn-law league in Covent Garden theatre 22 May 1844; contested Exeter April 1844 and July 1845; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1838. d. Bridge Lodge, Burgess Hill, Sussex 27 April 1875. Memoir of John Briggs by Evans Bell 1885, portrait.
BRIGGS, John Joseph (son of John Briggs of King’s Newton near Melbourne, Derbyshire, farmer 1777–1864). b. King’s Newton 6 March 1819; apprenticed to W. Bemrose of Derby, printer 1834; farmer at King’s Newton about 1840 to death; originated ‘The Naturalists’ column’ in the Field newspaper 1855; author of Melbourne, a sketch of its history and antiquity 1839; History of Melbourne 1852; The Trent and other poems 1857; The Peacock at Rowsley 1869; Guide to Melbourne 1871; History and antiquities of Hemington, Leicestershire, 12 copies privately printed 1873. d. King’s Newton 23 March 1876. Reliquary xvii, 49–54 (1877).
BRIGGS, Sir John Thomas (son of Wm. Briggs). b. London 4 June 1781; sec. to Commission for revising civil affairs of navy 1806; assistant sec. of Victualling Board 1809–30; private sec. to Sir James Graham, first lord of Admiralty 1830; comr. of Victualling Board 1831–2; accountant general of navy 1832 to Feb. 1854; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1851; author of several pamphlets on naval administration. d. 4 Royal Crescent, Brighton 3 Feb. 1865. Morning Post 8 Feb. 1865 and 3 Jany. 1874; Daily Telegraph 6 Jany. 1874.
BRIGGS, Sir Thomas (7 son of Stephen Briggs, chief surgeon at Madras). b. Southampton 1780; entered navy 10 Sep. 1791; captain of Queen Charlotte 100 guns 1818–21; resident comr. of naval yard at Bermuda 1823 and at Malta 1829–32; superintendent of Malta dockyard 1832–38; G.C.M.G. 26 June 1833; admiral 2 Sep. 1850; commander in chief at Portsmouth 18 Sep. 1851 to death. d. Admiralty house, Portsmouth 16 Dec. 1852.
BRIGHAM, Rev. Henry. b. Manchester 23 June 1796; ed. at Stonyhurst college; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest 1 June 1822; missioner at Hereford 10 Dec. 1827; removed to Preston 2 Oct. 1834 and to Bury St. Edmunds 23 July 1836; superior of College of Holy Apostles 1842–3; served missions of Pontefract, Teignmouth and Ugbrooke; professor of elocution at St. Stanislaus’ college Beaumont near Windsor 1865. d. St. Stanislaus’ college 26 May 1881.
BRIGHT, Henry (son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant). West India Merchant at Bristol; M.P. for Bristol 1820–30. d. Malvern 26 March 1869 aged 83.
BRIGHT, Henry (son of Jerome Bright of Saxmundham, Suffolk who d. 1846). b. Saxmundham 1814; apprenticed to a chemist at Woodbridge; studied painting in London; a member of Institute of Painters in Water Colours and of the Graphic Society; very popular as a teacher of painting; exhibited 12 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–73. d. Ipswich 21 Sep. 1873, Art Journal Oct. 1873; I.L.N. lxiii, 389 (1873), portrait.
BRIGHT, Henry Arthur (eld. son of Samuel Bright of Liverpool, shipowner 1799–1870.) b. Liverpool 9 Feb. 1830; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1857 (being with James Heywood first nonconformist to take a degree at Cam.) M.A. 1860; partner in firm of Gibbs, Bright and Co. shipowners 1857; contributed largely to Athenæum 1871 to death; published A year in a Lancashire garden 1879, which he wrote in Gardeners’ Chronicle 1874, and privately printed 50 copies 1875; The English flower garden 1881 and 5 other books. d. Ashfield, Knotty Ash near Liverpool 5 May 1884. H. A. Bright’s The Brights of Colwall (1872), p. 11; Christian Life 10 and 17 May 1884; N. Hawthorne and his wife ii, 21–7 (1885).