William Biggs

William Biggs (1804 – 3 October 1881) was a British politician and hosier. He was elected as a councillor for Leicester City Council on 26 December 1835 where he served as Mayor on three occasions in 1842, 1848 and 1859. In 1852 he was elected to Parliament as the member for Newport. He resigned from Parliament on 7 January 1857 through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

He was President of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1849.

Born in Leicester in 1804, he was the younger brother of John Biggs who was also a politician and hosier. He died in Liverpool on 3 October 1881 at the age of 77. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Narrative of the captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788,

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    Narrative of the captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788
    by Biggs, William, 1755-1827
    Published 1922

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    Narrative of William Biggs
    by Biggs, William, 1755-1827
    Published 1989

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    Narrative of William Biggs, : while he was a prisoner with the Kickepoo [sic] Indians, then living opposite the old Weawes Town, on the west bank of the Wabash River. : I was then living at Bellfontain, about 40 miles north of Kaskaskia Village, in the Illinois country, and about twenty miles south of Cahokia Village
    by Biggs, William, 1755-1827
    Published 1826

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