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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Briggs    
First Name(s)  Henry George    
Year of Birth  1824    
Year of Death  1872    
Entry  Born in Bombay, Oct. 20, 1824 : son of Henry Briggs : travelled in S. Africa, 1843 : in China, 1845 : settled in Bombay, 1846, in the office of Briggs & Co. : served in the Bombay Secretariat : went to Karachi : edited, 1854, the Sindian, and, 1855, the Sind Kossid, both long since defunct : became, 1856, Assistant Secretary at Bombay to the G.I.P. Railway: Secretary to the Bombay Municipality, 1860-2 : was a merchant and agent at Bombay and Hingolee, 1863 : he wrote, 1849, Cities of Gujdrashtra, a book of travel in Gujarat, containing curious information gleaned from travellers in India : of whose rare works he made an extensive collection: published The Parsis or Modem Zardushtians, 1852, which has now been superseded : wrote an historical account of the Nizam, 1861, a valuable work containing special information. His firm failed in the share mania of 1865 ; he travelled in Gujarat, and settled in Calcutta, entering the P.W.D. there: in May, 1872, he went again to Bombay; died there July 4, 1872.     
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