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One such walking stick (in full-bark Malacca) with concealed pencil was owned by the artist Augustus John. [7] The 1881 census listed Thomas Brigg Jr with fifteen employees. In December 1884, Thomas Brigg & Sons were awarded their first royal warrant as umbrella-makers to Queen Victoria.
Franz Müller (31 October 1840 – 14 November 1864) was a German tailor who was hanged for the murder of Thomas Briggs, the first killing on a British train. The case caught the imagination of the public due to increasing safety fears about rail travel at the time and the pursuit of Müller across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City by Scotland Yard.
Thomas Briggs may refer to: Thomas Briggs (coach), American football coach; Thomas Briggs (Royal Navy officer) (1780–1852), British naval officer; Thomas Briggs (died 1864), British banker, murdered by Franz Müller; Tommy Briggs (1923–1984), footballer; Sir Thomas Graham Briggs (1833–1887), of the Briggs baronets, member of the Executive ...
Charles Brigg, founder of the London company "Brigg – Umbrella, Cane & Whip Maker" in 1836, later named Thomas Brigg & Sons after his son; John Brigg (1834–1911), British politician; Kane Brigg (born 1988), Australian retired high jumper and triple jumper; Brigg Jenner, a fictional character in the My Super Psycho Sweet 16 film trilogy
Swaine London, known previously as Swaine Adeney Brigg, is a luxury goods shop that has traded in London's St James's since 1798. The shop sells leather goods, Brigg umbrellas and hats from Herbert Johnson .
The only surviving son of Dr. Stephen Briggs, Chief Surgeon at Madras, and Magdalene Pasley, Briggs entered the Navy on 10 September 1791. He first served as a first class volunteer aboard the ship Bellerophon, under the command of his uncle Captain Thomas Pasley. He later followed him into the ship Vengeance with the rank of midshipman.
The goodwill and stock of the firm were bought out by Thomas Brigg & Sons in 1919. [1] Their products included wedding baskets, presents, walking sticks and riding whips. The main focus lay however in the production and sale of umbrellas for the upper end. Paris at that time was one of the centres of the production of umbrellas.
Thomas Briggs was an American football coach. He was the third head football coach at Eastern Illinois State Normal School—now known as Eastern Illinois University —in Charleston, Illinois , serving for one season, in 1903, and compiling a record of 4–3–2.