Henry George Briggs (1824–1872) was an English merchant, traveller, and orientalist.
He travelled in South Africa in 1843; in China in 1845; and settled in Bombay in 1846, in the office of Briggs & Co.
He went to Karachi: edited, in 1854, the Sindian, and, in 1855, the Sind Kossid, both long since defunct.
He became, in 1856, Assistant Secretary at Bombay to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
His firm failed in the share mania of 1865; he travelled in Gujarat, and settled in Calcutta, entering the Public Works Department there.