Michael Fenwick Briggs
Michael Fenwick Briggs (7 July 1926 – 22 July 2017) was a British businessman who led preservation work in Bath, Somerset.
The son of Dennis B. Briggs, of Oxford, and Grace Mary Davey Luke, Briggs was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and Merton College, Oxford, as a Royal Air Force cadet.[1]
In 1953, Briggs married the author and publisher Isabel Colegate, and they had two sons and a daughter.[2]
A company director in the oil business,
In 1984, Briggs’s daughter Emily Susanna married Jonathan G. Ashley.[5]
Briggs died on 22 July 2017, aged 91.[2]
Notes
- ^ "BRIGGS, Michael Fenwick" in Merton College Register, 1900-1964 (Merton College, 1964), p. 345
- ^ a b c "Michael Briggs, chairman of Bath Preservation Trust – obituary", The Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2017, accessed 11 August 2021
- ^ "BRIGGS, Michael Fenwick" in The Directory of Directors: A List of the Directors of the Principal Public and Private Companies in the United Kingdom (1997), p. 85
- ^ For sale: Midford Castle, Somerset, Country Life April 5, 2007
- ^ Debrett's People of Today (London: Debrett's, 2006), p. 62