Raymond Briggs Wife: Did Raymond Briggs Remarry?

Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE, a British illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author was married to a gorgeous lady known as Jean until her death in 1973.

Briggs’ wife Jean, who suffered from schizophrenia, died from leukaemia in 1973, two years after his parents’ death. They did not have any children.

After her demise, Briggs did not remarry but instead stayed with a partner, Liz until her death in October 2015.

Briggs is best known in Britain for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.

Briggs attended Rutlish School, at that time a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father’s attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit, attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting, and Central School of Art to study typography.

From 1953 to 1955, Briggs was a National Service conscript in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick, where he was made a draughtsman. After this, he returned to study painting at Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London, graduating in 1957.

After briefly pursuing painting, he became a professional illustrator and soon began working in children’s books.

In 1958, he illustrated Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, a fairy tale anthology by Ruth Manning-Sanders that was published by Oxford University Press.

Sadly, Briggs died on August 9, 2022, 49 years after the death of his wife Jean.