Notes for: William Briggs

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.)