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.
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.
HIGHAM, JOHN, son of William Higham, Middlesex; b.; adm.; in school lists 1656; KS (aged 16) 1658 (Chapter Muniments 43060); d. at school 1661. [Probably son of William Higham, Under Cook, College Hall, Westminster]
Highmore, Joseph Anthony Cutcliffe, elder son of Sir Nathaniel Joseph Highmore, K.C. B., of Worcester Park, Surrey, barrister-at-law, sometime solicitor to H. M. Customs and Excise, by Annie Louisa, daughter of John Lane Cutcliffe, of Stoke Damarel, Devon; b. April 23, 1883; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 21, 1897; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1902, matric. Michaelmas 1902; called to the bar at the Inner Temple July 1, 1908; South Eastern Circuit; d. April 16, 1914.