Briggs, Sir John Thomas
(1781–1865)
- J. K. Laughton
- , revised by Andrew Lambert
Extract
Briggs, Sir John Thomas (1781–1865), naval administrator, son of William Briggs, of an old Norfolk family, a direct descendant of the physician William Briggs (c. 1650–1704), and, in a collateral line, of the mathematician Henry Briggs (bap. 1561, d. 1631), was born in ...
