born 7.5.1921 Keighley,Yorkshire
educated Keighley Grammar School
educated Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge (B.A. 1941)
educated University of London External Programme (B.Sc. 1941)
Intelligence Corps 1942
GC and CS 1942-45
Professor postwar
married Susan Anne Banwell 1955 (4 children)
created Baron Briggs,of Lewes,Sussex 1976