Michael Fenwick Briggs

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Michael Fenwick Briggs (7 July 1926 – 22 July 2017) was a British businessman who led preservation work in Bath, Somerset. He was the son of Dennis B. Briggs and Grace Mary Davey Luke, and studied at Gresham's School, Holt, and Merton College, Oxford as an RAF cadet. In 1953 he married Isabel Colegate, an author and publisher; they had two sons and a daughter. A director in the oil industry, in 1961 he bought Midford Castle near Bath and began restoring it. He served as chairman of the Bath Preservation Trust for twenty years. He owned Midford Castle for more than 45 years, repairing the house, using a former chapel as a picturesque ruin, and buying back land and buildings that had been sold off, expanding parkland and woodland to 59 acres. The property was put up for sale in 2007. In 1984 his daughter Emily Susanna Briggs married Jonathan G. Ashley. Briggs died on 22 July 2017, aged 91.