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HIGGATE, JOHN, son of Rev. John Higgate, Confessor to Royal Household, and Martha, sister of Jeffrey Glasier (qv); b. 17 Jun 1737; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1747; KS 1751; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1756, matr. 16 Jun 1756, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1757 – void 14 Oct 1776, expiry year of grace as R. Slapton; BA 1760; MA 1763; ordained priest (Winchester) 17 Jun 1764; Rector of Slapton, Bucks., from 28 Oct 1775; m. 17 Jun 1778 Susannah Lee (IGI); d. 1788.

HIGGINS, JAMES, son of James Higgins, Westminster; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1726; in under school list 1730; apprenticed to Daniel Peters, citizen and apothecary, 3 Nov 1730. [note will James Higgins, St. Margaret, Westminster, tobacconist, proved PCC 7 Dec 1722]

HIGGINS-BERNARD, FRANCIS TYRINGHAM, eldest son of Joseph Napier Higgins QC, barrister, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Sophia Elizabeth, youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard, Bart. (qv); b. 22 Jul 1864; adm. 24 Jan 1878 (R); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1883, matr. 12 Oct 1883; played Association Football v. Cambridge 1887; BA 1887; MA 1890; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 May 1886, called to bar 3 Jul 1889; assumed additional surname of Bernard 26 Mar 1897; of Nether Winchendon House, Bucks.; winner, Bar Point to Point 1900, 1906, and Officers’ Sabre Competition, Military Tournament 1904; Master, Skinners’ Co. 1903-4, 1928-9; contested (Cons) St. Austell Jan 1910, North Buckinghamshire Dec 1910; Lieut. -Col., 3rd batt. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry 15 May 1917; served on Western Front May 1917 – Mar 1919, wounded Jun 1917; DL JP Buckinghamshire, High Sheriff 1924; m. 27 Apr 1897 Evelyn Georgiana, eldest dau. of Philip James Digby Wykeham DL JP, Tythrop House, Oxfordshire; d. 16 Jul 1935.

HIGGINSON, ALEXANDER, eldest son of Alexander Higginson, Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, Judge of Supreme Court, Bengal [previously EICS Bengal ?], and Martha Isaacs, miniature painter; b.; adm. 3 Oct 1792; in school lists 1795, 1797; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1800, aged 18; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Jun 1801; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 26 Jan 1804; Lieut. and Capt., 14 Sep 1809; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1 Jul 1815; Col. in the Army 10 Jan 1837; Maj., 28 Jun 1838; retd. 15 May 1840; served Sicily in 1806-7, with Sir John Moore in Spain 1808-9, in Walcheren expedition 1809 and in Peninsular War 1812-4; d. unm. 1855 (will proved PCC 19 Sep 1855).

HIGGINSON, CHARLES HARWOOD, brother of Alexander Higginson (qv); b. 17 Feb 1784; adm. 3 Nov 1796; in school list 1797; Writer, EICS Madras 1799; Head Assistant to Secretary, General and Commercial Dept., 1803; Deputy Revenue Accountant 1804; Register to Provincial Court, North Division 1807, South Division 1811; Judge and Magistrate, Zillah of Trichinopoly; Third Judge, Provincial Court, South Division 1821, First Judge 1824; m. 17 Apr 1806 Frances, dau. of George Westcott, EICS Madras; d. at Trichinopoly 18 Jul 1824.

HIGGINSON, GEORGE POWELL, brother of Alexander Higginson (qv); bapt. St. Mary’s, St. Marylebone Road 10 Apr 1788 (IGI); adm. 25 May 1799; in school lists 1801 and May 1803; left 1803; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 6 Nov 1805; Lieut. and Capt., 3 Apr 1811; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 26 Oct 1820; ADC to Lord Hill, Commander-in-Chief 1830-42; half-pay 11 Apr 1834; Col. in the Army 10 Jan 1837; Maj. -Gen., 9 Nov 1846; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Jun 1854; Col., 94th Foot, from 29 Jan 1855; Gen., 9 Nov 1862; with Brigade of Guards in Sicily 1806; while returning from an excursion to Malta, was captured by a French privateer, and kept as prisoner at Tunis until an exchange was arranged; served in Spain under Sir John Moore 1808-9, in Walcheren expedition 1809, and in Peninsular War 1812-4; m. 16 Jun 1825 Lady Frances Elizabeth Needham, third dau. of Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey (I), Gen. in Army, Col. 86th Regt.; d. at Cannes, France 19 Apr 1866.

HIGGINSON, HENRY, youngest brother of Alexander Higginson (qv); b. 1 Mar 1790; in school lists 1801, 1803; left 1806; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Dec 1806, aged 16; BA 1810; MA 1813; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Jun 1809; ordained deacon (London, lit. dim. from Winchester) Mar 1815, priest (Hereford, lit. dim. from Winchester) Jan 1816; Curate, Newdigate, Surrey 1815; Minister, East India Company Chapel, Poplar, for more than twenty years; d. 5 Feb 1848.

Higgs & Co. (Printers) Ltd., printers, stationers and publishers of the local weekly newspaper, the Henley Standard, was incorporated on 10th May, 1979, although its roots go back a hundred years before that.

A gentleman call Thomas Octavius Higgs started a printing business in Henley in 1877 and built premises at Caxton House, on the corner of Reading Road and Station Road in 1885. At this time he also became the official printer for the Henley Royal Regatta programme.

In 1892 he gained the contract for printing the recently re-named Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard, which had started life as the Henley Free Press in February 1885.

Charles Luker, the grandfather of the current president, joined Mr Higgs’s firm in the autumn of 1894, when he was not quite 18, in order to learn the printing trade, as his father printed the Faringdon Advertiser.

On Thomas Octavius Higgs’s death in 1896, the business passed to his widow Eliza, who sold it to a partnership from the Hobbs family, the local boatbuilders. Charles Luker also became a partner and eventually became sole proprietor in about 1900, from whence the firm was known as Higgs & Co.

Higgs, Eustace Crompton, son of Edwin John Higgs of Chiswick and Ruby Broomhall Cham­bers; b. 23 Sept. 1910; adm. May 1924 (H); left July 1927; Clerical & Med. Assurance Soc. 1927-38, branch man. Bristol 1946-9; Roy. Signals (TA) 1939-50 (Capt.), MC (NW Europe) Mar. 1945; SRO Jan. 1951, retd as Maj. 1953; partner H. J. SIutter & Partners 1949-65; self­ employed in Cornwall 1965; m. 26 July 1938 Marjorie Mercer, d. of Henry John Camp, civil servant, of Chiswick; d. 12 May 1980.

HIGGS, FRANCIS, son of John Higgs, and Ann (Pickering ?) (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 10 Jul 1725 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jan 1736/7; left 1741.