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HIGGS, JOHN, brother of Francis Higgs (qv); bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 3 Jul 1728 (IGI); adm. (aged 8) Jan 1736/7; KS 1743; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1747, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1747, scholar 6 May 1748; BA 1750/1; MA 1754; BD 1768; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1753, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1754, a Senior Fellow 1781; ordained deacon 23 Feb 1755, priest 21 Sep 1755 (both Ely); Rector of Over, Cambs. 1772-7; Vicar of Marsworth, Bucks., 10 May 1777-80; Rector of Grundisburgh, Suffolk, from 1780; JP Suffolk; a friend of Richard Cumberland (qv); d. 6 Oct 1816.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.