Henry George Briggs (1824–1872) was an English merchant, traveller, and orientalist.
Life
Henry George Briggs, son of Henry Briggs, was born in
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
on 20 October 1824. He travelled in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
in 1843; in
China
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in 1845; and settled in Bombay in 1846, in the office of Briggs & Co. He served in the
Bombay Secretariat. He went to
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
: edited, in 1854, the ''Sindian'', and, in 1855, the Sind ''Kossid'', both long since defunct. He became, in 1856, Assistant Secretary at Bombay to the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (reporting mark GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway (and by extension, the current state-owned Indian Railways), whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Mumbai (later, the Victoria Terminu ...
. He was Secretary to the Bombay Municipality, 1860–1862. He was a merchant and agent at Bombay and
Hingolee in 1863. His firm failed in the share mania of 1865; he travelled in Gujarat, and settled in Calcutta, entering the Public Works Department there. In May 1872, he went again to Bombay; he died there on 4 July 1872.
[Buckland 1906, p. 52.]
Works
* ''Cities of Gujdrashtra'' (1849), a book of travel in
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
, containing curious information gleaned from travellers in India: of whose rare works he made an extensive collection.
* ''The Parsis or Modern Zardushtians'' (1852), a work which had been superseded by 1906.
* ''The Nizam, His History and Relations with the British Government'' (1861), a valuable work containing special information.
References
Sources
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External links
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Ockerbloom, John Mark, ed
"Briggs, Henry George, 1824-1872" ''The Online Books Page''. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
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1824 births
1872 deaths
19th-century English writers