Arthur Bryant Triggs (30 January 1868 – 9 September 1936) was an Australian
grazier
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*A person engaged in pastoral farming
People
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*Colin Grazier (1920–1942), a Royal Navy sailor
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and collector.
Family life
Triggs was born in
Chelsea, London, the son of James Triggs, carpet agent, and his wife Celia Anne, née Bryant. His younger brother was
Inigo Triggs
Henry Inigo Triggs (1876–1923) was an English country house architect and designer of formal gardens, and author.
Family life
Harry Benjamin Inigo Triggs was born in Chiswick, London, on 28 February 1876, to James Triggs, carpet agent, and h ...
, the English country house architect and garden designer and author. The architect
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (; 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant architect in England and Wales in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
As the most notable archit ...
was a distant relative.
Career
In 1887 Arthur immigrated to
Australia
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, becoming a wealthy
New South Wales grazier (known as The Sheep King) and collector of art, books and coins.
Further reading
Jitts, Stephe (2015). ''Arthur Bryant Triggs: Pastoralist, Philanthropist, Collector''. .
External links
Australian Dictionary of Biography – Arthur Bryant TriggsTracking A.B. Triggs and his collections
article by Alan Ives, in "MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia", Nov, 2003.
1868 births
1936 deaths
Australian sheep breeders
English emigrants to colonial Australia
Australian book and manuscript collectors
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