BRIGGS, AUGUSTUS. _b._ 7 May 1813; member of House of Assembly,
Barbados many years, speaker 1868–75; member of Legislative
council 1878 and president 1881 to death. _d._ Maynards, Barbados
17 May 1882.
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.