HIGGIN, Right Rev. William (4 son of John Higgin of Greenfield, governor of Lancaster castle 1783–1833). b. Lancaster 27 Sep. 1793; ed. at Lancaster gram. sch., Manchester gram. sch., and Trin. coll. Cam., 13 wr. 1817, B.A. 1817; M.A. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1835, D.D. 1849; C. of Clifton 1817–20; chaplain Richmond general penitentiary, Dublin 1820–8; R. of Roscrea 1828–45; vicar general of Killaloe 1828–45; dean of Limerick, instituted 25 Jany. 1845; bishop of Limerick 1849; translated to Derry 7 Dec. 1853, enthroned 20 Dec.; comr. of national education 1853; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1866; author of Ministerial fidelity and zeal. A sermon 1839, and other sermons and charges 1849–67. d. the Palace, Londonderry 12 July 1867. bur. in ground of St. Columba cath. Manchester school register, iii, 62–5 (1874).
HIGGINBOTTOM, John (son of a solicitor). b. Ashton under Lyne 14 June 1788; studied at Edin.; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; practised at Nottingham 1812 to death; temperance advocate, gave no alcohol to his patients; wrote in scientific journals on tritons, tadpoles and frogs 1850–62; author of An essay on the application of lunar caustic in the case of wounds and ulcers 1826, 3 ed. 1865; Mothers, doctors and nurses. A dialogue on paralysis and apoplexy 1850. d. St. Alban’s villas, Gill st. Nottingham 7 April 1876. The Lancet 29 April 1876 p. 652.
HIGGINS, Most Rev. Andrew. b. Killarney 1834; dean of Kerry; bishop of Kerry 5 Feb. 1882 to death. d. The palace, Kerry 1 May 1889. bur. in the cathedral 3 May. Tablet 4 May 1889 p. 702, 11 May p. 736.
HIGGINS, Charles. b. 1805 or 1806; M.D. Edin. 1825; knight of legion of honour; author of Observations on climate, diet and medical treatment in France and England 1835; Notes sur l’emploi des altérants dans les maladies, aigues et chroniques. Paris 1859. d. 212 Rue de Rivoli, Paris 27 July 1866.
HIGGINS, Charles Longuet (1 son of John Higgins of Turvey abbey, Beds., d. 1846). b. Turvey abbey 30 Nov. 1806; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. 14 Nov. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; student of Lincoln’s inn 16 Nov. 1830, withdrew his name 2 Nov. 1847; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s 1836–8; in practice at Turvey 1838; visited Egypt and the Holy Land 1848; restored Turvey ch. 1852–4, built schools 1847, a village museum 1852 and better cottages 1849 etc.; projected a hymn book for general use in Ch. of England, and printed Hymnology, a paper read before the church congress Nottingham. Oxford 1871. d. Turvey 23 Jany. 1885. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) ii, 343–422.
HIGGINS, George Gore Ouseley (2 son of Fitzgerald Higgins of Westport, co. Mayo). b. 15 Oct. 1818; ed. at Brussels and Trin. coll. Dublin; in C.S. in Jamaica; M.P. for Mayo 1850 to 1857; lieut.-col. North Mayo militia 5 Feb. 1855 to 1 Oct. 1861. d. 6 Wilton place, London 8 May 1874. I.L.N. xvii, 169 (1850), portrait.
HIGGINS, Matthew James (only son of Matthew Higgins of Benown castle, Westmeath). b. Benown castle 4 Dec. 1810; ed. at Eton; matric. from New coll. Ox. 22 May 1828; went to British Guiana 1838 and 1846 where he owned an estate; contributed an article called ‘Jacob Omnium the Merchant Prince’ to New Monthly Magazine, Aug. 1845; agent for the British Association for the relief of the destitute Irish 1847; contested Westbury 31 July 1847; one of chief writers on Morning Chronicle 1848; contributed to The Times on all kinds of questions under pseudonym of Jacob Omnium, J.O., Civilian, Paterfamilias, West Londoner, A Belgravian Mother, Mother of six, A thirsty soul, John Barleycorn, Providus, and many others till 1863; contributed to the Edinburgh Rev., the Cornhill and the Pall Mall Gazette; author of Is cheap sugar the triumph of free trade? A letter to Lord J. Russell 1847, Second Letter 1848, Third Letter 1848; Light horse 1855; The story of the Mhow court-martial 1864 and other books. d. Kingston house near Abingdon 14 Aug. 1868. bur. in R.C. cemet. Fulham 21 Aug. Essays on social subjects by M. J. Higgins, with memoir by Sir W. S. Maxwell (1875); Cornhill, xviii, 507–12 (1868); The Mask (1868), 42 portrait.
HIGGINS, Thomas Gordon. b. 1789; Second lieut. R.A. 4 Oct. 1806, col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Jany. 1857, col. commandant 20 Sep. 1865 to death; L.G. 26 Dec. 1865; commandant of garrison of Quebec 5 years, presented with a piece of plate by inhabitants of Quebec 30 April 1853. d. 83 Sloane st. Chelsea 20 June 1871 aged 82. I.L.N. xxii, 341 (1853), picture of testimonial.
HIGGINSON, Rev. Edward (eld. son of Rev. Edward Higginson, unitarian minister, d. 1832). b. Heaton Norris, Lancs. 9 Jany. 1807; ed. at Manchester coll. York 1823–8; unitarian minister Bowl alley lane chapel, Hull 1828–46, at Westgate chapel, Wakefield 1846–58, and at High st. chapel, Swansea 1858–76; president Royal Institution, South Wales 1877–9; author of Orthodoxy and unbelief 1832; The sacrifice of Christ 1833, 2 ed. 1848; The spirit of the Bible 2 vols. 1853–5, 2 ed. 1863; Ecce Messias 1871; with his wife Emily dau. of George Thomas he wrote The fine arts in Italy 1859. d. 2 Glanmore ter. Swansea 12 Feb. 1880. Autobiographical sketch in Christian Reformer (1856) 192, (1857) 528; Christian Life 21 Feb. 1880 pp. 86–7, portrait.
HIGGINSON, George Powell. b. 1787; ensign 1 foot guards 6 Nov. 1805, captain 26 Oct. 1820 to 11 April 1834 when placed on h.p.; col. 94 foot 29 Jany. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. d. Cannes 19 April 1866 aged 79.