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Sir Thomas Graham Briggs, 1st Baronet (30 September 1833 – 11 October 1887) was a Victorian land-owner in the Caribbean with property in
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and
Nevis Nevis is a small island in the Caribbean Sea that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies. Nevis and the neighbouring island of Saint Kitts constitute one country: the Federation of Saint Kitts and ...
. He was the only child of Joseph Lyder Briggs (1792–1866) and Elizabeth Hinds Briggs. Graham Briggs owned Stoney Grove Estate, Nevis. Graham Briggs was made a
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as Briggs of Briggs Dayrell, Barbados on 27 November 1871. The title became extinct with his death. He was a member of the a member of the Executive Council of Barbados.


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