Tracking A.B. Triggs and his collections - Arthur Bryant Triggs - Biography

MARGIN: Life & Letters in Early Australia, Nov, 2003 by Alan Ives

note: Bayley has references to Triggs as follows: chanter 9, 1893-1913--on page 80 he states that the new Presbyterian Church in Yass was opened by Miss Jessie Ritchie Triggs, grand-daughter [n her Mother's side] of the first Presbyterian Minister in Yass. The church had/has two stained glass windows presented by the McBean and Triggs families. The second Mrs. Triggs was a member of the McBean family; on page 81 Bayley refers to the visit to Yass by Sir Harry Rawson, the Governor of New South Wales, who with his daughter was brought from Yass Junction railway station into Yass riding in Mr. A.B. Triggs' sociable; chapter 11, 1927-1939--on page 102 is recorded the death of A.B. Triggs. Bayley mentions that Jessie Ritchie Triggs became Mrs. Reid. He refers to a 1911 article about Triggs in the Pastoral Review. Mention is also made of the Triggs memorial gates at the main entrance to Victoria Park in Yass. They were opened officially by the Hon. J.N. Lawson M.H.R., Minister for trade and Customs, on August 16, 1939. Bayley also states that James Jervis wrote Triggs' life story in the Farmer and Settler in 1955. It is perhaps ironic that in 2003 that the current writer is interested in Triggs--in as much as James Jervis was this writer's great-uncle.

Freeman, Peter. 1982 The Homestead--a Riverina Anthology. Part Two: [chapter] 7. The Lower Darling Squatting District: Coan Downs, especially pages 144 and 145, with a photograph of A.B. Triggs at the top left: of page 145 Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.

Cowan, James (written by) and Colin Beard (photography by). 1983 The River People. Billabong--[part 1] Merri Merrigal, pages 124-131--page 131 is full page coloured photograph showing Jim Triggs and his son, and in the wall behind them is a framed black and white photograph of Sir Sidney Kidman standing alongside A.B. Triggs. Jim Triggs is A.B. Triggs' grandson. A.H. & A.W. Reed Pry. Ltd., Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.

note: this book is about the Lachlan River in central New South Wales. It is a very well illustrated folio volume.

Walsh, G.P. 1990 'Triggs, Arthur Bryant (1868-1936)'. Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1891-1939, Stay-Z, volume 12: pages 263-264

Bidgood, Jeff. 1997 A collection of catalogues. Biblionews 22(1): 17-27, issue 313, March; illustrated with a copy of A.B. Triggs' bookplate on page 26

note: the father-in law of the author of this article was the last Superintendent of Triggs' Pastoral Estates and an executor of Triggs' estate. The catalogues recorded in the article are I) Greek, Roman and English Coins [1924]; 2) Oil paintings and water colour drawings; 3) A collection of drawings [1922]; 4) Laces and embroideries (antique and modern); 5) Historical documents and autographed letters [1924]; 6) The Lawson's sale at "Linton" in September 1945; and 7) The Lawson's sale in Sydney in November 1945. Unfortunatley the article does not give precise bibliographical details of the catalogues. Dates in [--] are drawn from other sources.

TRACKING A.B. TRIGGS AND HIS COLLECTIONS