What is Asa Briggs?
{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Lord Briggs | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1921|5|7}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/b/7412/Asa+Briggs.aspx |title=The Rt Hon the Lord Briggs, FBA |work=Debretts}}</ref> | birth_place = [[Keighley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], [[England]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2016|03|15|1921|5|7}} | death_place = [[Lewes]], [[East Sussex]], [[England]] | nationality = British | occupation = Historian | spouse = Susan Anne Banwell (1955–2016, his death) }} '''Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs''' (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016) was an [[English people|English]] historian. He was a leading specialist on the [[Victorian era]]. He was a well-known historian of broadcasting in Britain. He was made a [[life peer]] in 1976. Briggs was born in [[Keighley]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. Briggs died in [[Lewes]], [[East Sussex]] on 15 March 2016. He was aged 94. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Briggs, Asa}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:English historians]] [[Category:Writers from Yorkshire]] [[Category:People from West Yorkshire]] {{bio-stub}}