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John Davidson Briggs (born 1917) (known as David Briggs), is a former Headmaster of King's College School, Cambridge. == Early life and education == He was born in Norwich, England, son of Canon George Wallace Briggs and Constance Barrow.〔(Anne Atkins : ''My father - the last choirboy from King's College Chapel's historic first Christmas broadcast'', Daily Mail 19 December 2009 )〕 One of his godfathers was the Archbishop of Canterbury Randall Davidson. He sang in King’s College Choir both as a chorister, from 1927 to 1931, and as a choral scholar, from 1936 to 1939.〔(King's College Choir Association Archive Photos - 1927, 1930, 1937 & 1939 )〕 He attended Marlborough College as a Foundation scholar, and then studied classics and history at King's College, Cambridge, where he held simultaneously an academic exhibition and a choral scholarship. He sang in the first broadcast Christmas Eve carol service from King’s College Chapel in 1928, and continues to sing in a church choir. He was recently interviewed in ''A Celebration of Christmas Carols'' broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 25 December 2013, making his broadcasting career span 85 years. In 1940 he married Catherine Mary Lormer,〔〔(Former staff at Bryanston )〕 a mathematics teacher whose students would include Sir Andrew Wiles who later proved Fermat’s Last Theorem and Sir Timothy Gowers, Rouse Ball Professor at Cambridge. Their children are Johnny, who farms in Wales, Andrew, Professor of Nanomaterials at Oxford, Catherine, who teaches the visually impaired, and Anne Atkins, writer and broadcaster.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Briggs (English Headmaster)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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