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(06) Thomas Brygge Esq.

Thomas was born before 1546 in North Wotten, England.  Thomas was alive in North Woten in 1546.  Thomas married Elizabeth Mounteyn.

They had five children:

Child No. 1:  Oliver Briggs:  died 1596.  Settled in Salop.  Oliver married Coningsby (daughter of Humphrey Coningsby Esq.).  They had one child:  Humphrey Briggs Esq.:  was born in Salop?  High Sheriff of Salop in 1605.

Child No. 2:  Samuel Briggs:  was of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and of King's College, Cambridge.  He had one child:  Joseph Briggs A.M.:  was Vicar of Kirkburton, Yorkshire, Eng.

Child No. 3:  Unknown Thomas? Brigges:  born about 1554.  He had one child:  Henrie Briggs:  born about 1574 and died 14Aug1625.

Child No. 4:  Henry Briggs, Professor:  born 1560/1561 in Warley Wood, Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England.  died 26Jan1630/1631 in Merton College, Oxford, England.  Noted Mathematician and Professor at Oxford.  Sent from grammer school to St. John's College, Cambridge in 1577.  He became scholar in 1579, took the degree of B.A. in 1581, and that of M.A. in 1585.  In 1588 he was made fellow of his college, examiner and lecturer in 1592, and soon after "reader of the Physics lecture founded by Dr. Linacre."  When Gresham College was founded in London, he became professor of geometry there.. After holding his professorship for 23 years (from 1596 to 1619), Briggs accepted, at request of Sir Henry Savile, the professorship of Astronomy at Oxford, which he had founded and himself held for some time.  For a little time Briggs continued to hold the professorship at Gresham College, but resigned it on 25Jul1620.  Upon his appointment as Savilian professor, he was admitted as a fellow-commoner of Merton College, and was incorporated M.A.  He died at Merton College 26Jan1630/31.

Child No. 5:  Augustine Briggs Esq.:  born before 1617.  Augustine Briggs Sr. settled in Norwich in 1626.  He had one child:  Augustine Briggs Esq., born 1617 and died 1684 in Norwich, England.  He married Elizabeth Aldred.  She died before 1684.  They had two children:  (1st child) Augustine Briggs:  died 1704.  (2nd child) William Briggs:  born 1650.  died 04Sep1704 in Town Malling, Kent, Eng.

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