John Brigg (1834–1911)

Company director and politician. Engaged in the worsted business until 1890. Helped to found Keighley Trade School and reorganise the Girls’ Grammar School. Liberal MP for Keighley, 1895–1911. Chairman of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1872. Fellow of the Geological Society of London from 1875. Knighted, 1909.