HCR diary 22.5.1823 at Bischoff's "Mr Briggs from Constantinople"
8.4.1826 "Aders spoke of Thomas Stansfeld's bankruptcy and blamed it on his father-in-law Briggs"
11.7.1836 at Mrs Aders blue stocking party "Briggs"
These are possibly three different Briggs. Samuel Briggs, British pro-consul at Alexandria 1805 (British Library IOR/H/479 p 537). From 1810 he was a merchant in London and Alexandria. Morning Post 17.1.1823 he spoke at meeting in London about the distress after earthquakes in Syria. In 1837 he spoke to the Select Committee on Steam Communication with India (p119-125). James Bischoff (QV*) however was married to Thomas Stansfeld's sister Margaret, so Rawdon Briggs may have been 'from Constatntinople' at that time. Thomas Wolrich Stansfeld married 4.10.1820 Anne dau of Rawdon Briggs (1758-1835) banker of Halifax