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                Wife: Margaret _____    
             Resided: 1920 - 1933          at Owlbrigg, 6 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  1,2 (see note 1)
              Father:
              Mother:
             Husband: William Briggs     
                Born: 1861                 in Leeds, Yorkshire  3 (see note 2)
              Census: 1881                 in Leeds, Yorkshire   (see note 3)
          Occupation: 1881                 Teacher, Undergraduate of London University  
           Education:                      Jesus College, Cambridge  4 (see note 4)
              Census: 1891                 in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire   (see note 5)
          Occupation: 1891                 Tutor, Publisher  
              Census: 1901                 in Cambridge   (see note 6)
          Occupation: 1901                 College Principal, Author, Publisher and Printer  
             Resided: 1905 - 1932          at Owlbrigg, 6 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  1,5,6,2
                Died: 1932                 at sea  4
              Father:
              Mother:
Other spouse 1
Notes 

Sources:
(1) Electoral Register. 
(2) Rus in Urbe. 
(3) FreeBMD website. 
(4) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(5) Spalding's Directory (Kelly's after WW2) 
(6) Probate record. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Rus in Urbe has Mrs William Briggs living at Owlbrigg in 1933
Note (2) Dec 1861 Leeds 9b 365
Note (3) Age 19, born Leeds.  Teacher, Undergraduate of London University, with
family
Note (4) From Alumni Cantabrigienses:
Name 	William. Briggs
College 	JESUS
Entered 	Michs. 1887
Died 	June 19, 1932
More Information 	Matric. Non-Coll. Michs. 1887. S. of Edwin, Esq. B. at
Leeds. School, Yorkshire College. Adm. pens. (age 28) at JESUS, Oct. 1889; B.A.
1890; LL.B. 1891; M.A. 1894; LL.M. 1895; LL.D. 1902. Founded the 'University
Correspondence College,' 1887, and later the 'University Tutorial College,'
London. Editor of the University Correspondent and Chairman of the University
Tutorial Press. Took a prominent part as the supporter of village industry at
Foxton, Cambs., where he established his own printing and book-binding works. A
Grand Master of English Freemasons. Of Owlbrigg, Cambridge. Author, scholastic.
Died June 19, 1932, aged 70, at sea, off Arosa Bay. Brother of John (1888).
(Cambridge Review, Oct. 14, 1932; The Times, June 29, 1932.)
Note (5) Age 29, born Leeds.  Tutor Publisher, with wife Ada E and three children,
also his brother John and sister Sarah
Note (6) Age 39, born Leeds.  College Principal, Author, Publisher and Printer,
widower, with children and sisters Sarah and Ada

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