More Info →Mark Briggs

Description

Mark Briggs (1885-1965) was a flax worker, conscientious objector, Palmerston North businessman and member of the Legislative Council.

He was particularly noted as being one of the fourteen New Zealand conscientious objectors who, in 1917, was transported to France during WWI. On his return to New Zealand he took up his auctioneering business in Cuba Street and led an active public life. He married Alberta (Bertha) Burrill in 1920.

This photograph was taken when he was elected to the Legislative Council in 1936, aged about 51 years.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Research file A175/385 - B

Date

1936

Digitisation ID

2019P_A175-385_028503

Format

B&W print