Francis Burnham Rigby was an English electrical engineer who was employed in the installation of underground power lines in Oakland and Berkeley during the aftermath of the 1906 San Francsico earthquake and fire. Rigby travelled extensively and eventually settled in the Solomon Islands. At the outset of World War I he returned to England to join the Royal Naval Air Service, then later the Royal Air Force. He died at age 40 in 1918. (From obituary clipping affixed to inside back cover of California album.)
From the description of Francis Burnham Rigby photograph albums [graphic] : reconstruction of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley after the earthquake and fire of 1906, and scenes from the English countryside. 1907-ca. 1918. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 456715013
