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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.