Arthur Bryant Triggs (30 January 1868 – 9 September 1936) was an Australian
grazier and collector.
Family life
Triggs was born in
Chelsea, London
Chelsea is an area in West London, England, due south-west of Kilometre zero#Great Britain, Charing Cross by approximately . It lies on the north bank of the River Thames and for postal purposes is part of the SW postcode area, south-western p ...
, the son of James Triggs, carpet agent, and his wife Celia Anne, née Bryant. His younger brother was
Inigo Triggs, the English country house architect and garden designer and author. The architect
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was an English architect who was the first significant Architecture of England, architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvius, Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmet ...
was a distant relative.
Career
In 1887 Arthur immigrated to
Australia
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, becoming a wealthy
New South Wales
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grazier (known as The Sheep King) and collector of art, books and coins.
Further reading
Jitts, Stephe (2015). ''Arthur Bryant Triggs: Pastoralist, Philanthropist, Collector''. .
External links
Australian Dictionary of Biography – Arthur Bryant TriggsTracking A.B. Triggs and his collections
article by Alan Ives, in "MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia", Nov, 2003.
1868 births
1936 deaths
Australian sheep breeders
English emigrants to colonial Australia
Australian book and manuscript collectors
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