Kenneth Briggs

{{short description|English cricketer and Royal Air Force officer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Kenneth Robert Briggs

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1933|7|17|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Woking, Surrey, England

| nickname =

| family =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm off break

| role =

| club1 = Lincolnshire

| year1 = 1956

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 29

| bat avg1 = 29.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 17*

| deliveries1 = 90

| wickets1 = 1

| bowl avg1 = 44.00

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 1/32

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 16 February

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/9985.html Cricinfo

}}

Kenneth Robert Briggs (born 17 July 1933) is an English former first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer.

Briggs was born at Woking and enlisted in the Royal Air Force in July 1954 as a pilot officer, having graduated from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell.{{London Gazette |issue=40293|date=1 October 1954|startpage=5637|supp=y}} He was promoted to flying officer in August 1955.{{London Gazette |issue=40551|date=29 July 1955|startpage=4436|supp=y}} While stationed at Cranwell he played minor counties cricket for Lincolnshire against the Yorkshire Second XI in the 1956 Minor Counties Championship.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28129/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Kenneth Briggs |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-16 |url-access=subscription}} He was promoted to the rank of flight lieutenant in February 1957.{{London Gazette |issue=41011|date=22 February 1957|startpage=1290|supp=y}} In 1961, he was selected to play a first-class cricket match for the Combined Services cricket team against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28129/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Kenneth Briggs |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-16 |url-access=subscription}} He scored 29 runs in the match, and took the wicket of Roger Vowles.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33528/33528.html |title=Nottinghamshire v Combined Services, 1961 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-02-16 |url-access=subscription}} He became a squadron leader in January 1964.{{London Gazette |issue=43210|date=31 December 1963|startpage=78|supp=y}} Ten years later in January 1974, Briggs was promoted to the rank of wing commander.{{London Gazette |issue=46174|date=7 January 1974|startpage=284|supp=y}} He was promoted to the rank of group captain in January 1981.{{London Gazette |issue=48498|date=19 January 1981|startpage=822|supp=y}} He retired from active service in December 1985, retaining the rank of group captain.{{London Gazette |issue=50426|date=10 February 1986|startpage=1974|supp=y}}