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HICKS, WILLIAM, son of Francis Hicks, Watton, Norfolk, grocer, and Jane ---; b.; at school under Markham three years (Venn, Biographical History of Gonville and Caius Coll. Camb., ii, 76); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 1 Jan 1759, aged 15, pensioner 1 Jan 1760, scholar Mich. 1759 – Christmas 1764; BA 1763; MA 1766; Junior Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll., Christmas 1764 – Midsummer 1777; ordained deacon (Norwich) 23 Sep 1764, priest 17 Aug 1766; Curate, Cockley Cley, Norfolk 1764; Vicar of Breckles, Norfolk, from 15 Jun 1770; Vicar of Watton, Norfolk, from 1779; d. 26 Oct 1784.

HICKSON, ROBERT, son of John Hickson DCL, Grove Dingle, co. Kerry, and Barbara, eldest dau. of John Mahony, Dromore Castle, co. Kerry; b. 13 Dec 1814; adm. 12 Feb 1827 (Singleton's); KS 1829; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1833, matr. 23 May 1833, Westminster Student; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 9 Jun 1836, King’s Inns, Dublin 1840; of Ballintaggart, co. Kerry; JP; m. 3 Jun 1843 Julia Sophia, second dau. of William Sadleir Bruere, Berwick; d. 18 Aug 1851.

HIDE, ---; b.; in under school lists 1715-8 (spelled Hyde in three of these lists).

HIGDON, ---; b.; in school lists 1656.

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.