HAWORTH Art Gallery curator Jennifer Rennie was proud to accept a memento of one of Accrington's famous sons.

The bronze bust of Joseph Briggs, who worked for the Tiffany glass company, will be displayed at the Accrington gallery.

Joseph Briggs left Lancashire in 1891, aged 17, to begin a career in the United States.

Mr Briggs joined the Tiffany glass company and eventually became its president and raised a family in New Jersey.

And his contribution to world art has been marked by the donation of the bust, produced at the Tiffany studio, to the Haworth.

Mr Briggs' achievements were recently researched by Manchester-based Douglas Jackson, a member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

The group was formed as a tribute to the war-time prime minister and sponsors trips abroad for research into areas of national interest.

Mr Jackson visited New York to look into Mr Briggs' life, where he met owners of the bust, Neil and Janet Harrington.

They promised to visit England after deciding to donate the item to the Haworth and handed it over at a ceremony. The bust will sit alongside the Tiffany glass collection, which was donated by Mr Briggs in the 1930s.

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