Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

_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