Johnny Briggs

Johnny Briggs was an English cricketer and singer.

He was a member of the first English cricket team to play in South Africa in 1888, a team led by C. Aubrey Smith, who would later become famous as a stage and film actor, actor.

On 24 December of that year the members of the team attended and took part in a "smoking concert" held in their honour in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town. The concert had two parts, first a Christy Minstrel show, that included a comic ditty called "The Man that Struck O'Hara". The second half saw songs by local celebrities such as Tom Graham, a talk on public entertainers by Robert Baden-Powell, as well as other team members, such as the manager Major Warton and the popular Johnny Briggs. C.D. Boonzaier, of the