Harry Benjamin Inigo Triggs [commonly known as Harry Inigo Triggs; and as Inigo Triggs] was born in Turnham Green, Chiswick, Middlesex on 28 February 1876 and was articled to Peter Dollar (1847-1943) from 1892 to 1894. He also attended King's College London and Chiswick School of Art. In 1895 he was awarded an Architectural Association Travelling Studentship. He worked as an assistant to Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858-1925) in 1896; to Henry Thomas Hare (1860?-1921) from 1896 to 1898; and to Sir Henry Tanner (1849-1935). He also worked as an assistant to William Frederick Unsworth (1850–1912) [dates not known]
Triggs qualified as an architect in 1898 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1899. Later that year he commenced independent practice as an architect in London. For reasons of health he moved to Switzerland for a period. Following his return to England in 1908 [or 1910 - sources differ], he formed a partnership with William Frederick Unsworth and his son, Gerald Unsworth (1883-1946) in the Petersfield, Hampshire-based architectural firm Unsworth & Triggs.
Unsworth and Triggs also appear to have briefly been in partnership with Arthur Christopher Goulder (1884-1963) as Unsworth, Triggs & Goulder . The war memorial in Petersfield, Hampshire was designed by Inigo Triggs of Unsworth, Triggs & Goulder in 1922. [English Heritage].
Triggs was the author of a number of books on architecture, town planning and garden design
Triggs died in Taormina, Sicily on 8 April 1923. He had gone to Taormina to build the Anglo-American Church of St George, in which he was buried.
Architectural projects by Triggs included Little Boarhunt House in Liphook, Hampshire (1910); The Rectory in Liphook, Hampshire (1912); Windrush Lodge in Nazeing, Essex (1913); War Memorial in Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire (1918); War Memorial in Bedford Park, London (c.1920); and War Memorial in Haslemere, Surrey (1920-21).
Garden designs by Triggs included for Barrow Court in Barrow Gurney, Somerset (1890); Restalls in Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire (c.1905); Little Boarhunt House in Liphook, Hampshire (1910); Chillington Hall, near Brewood, Staffordshire (1911); and Ashford Chace in Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire (1912).
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See also entry on Unsworth & Triggs
Bishop, Wendy. Inigo Triggs, 1876-1923. M.A. thesis, University of Bristol, Faculty of Arts, Archaeology and Anthropology Department, 2011
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Gray, A. Stuart. Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1985
‘Obituary’. The Builder 27 April 1923 p. 690
‘Obituary’. RIBA Journal vol. 30, 12 May 1923 pp. 431, 432