T. Higgins
General information▶Date of birth: 1797 Place of birth: - ▶Father: Joseph Higgins Mother: - ▶Spouse(s): (1) Mary Stanley Mills; (2) Maria Brown Date(s) of marriage: (1) 19 November 1829; (2) Place(s) of marriage: (1) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire; (2) ▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican) ▶Lifestory: [Identification likely but not certain.] The Revd. T. Higgins was the son of Joseph Higgins, of Eastnor, Herefordshire. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1814, Scholar 1815-17, BA (second class in Literae Humaniores) 1818, MA 1822. He was ordained Priest (Hereford) in 1822, when he was licensed Curate of Pixley, in Herefordshire. He is presumably the “Rev. T. Higgins” who visited Cheltenham in 1829, before his marriage in November of that year to Mary Stanley (a minor, with the consent of her parents), only child of John Mills, of Stratford-upon-Avon. From 1830 until 1843 he was the Incumbent of Stoulton, Worcester. Higgins stayed on a short lease at Cyntaf House (now 88 Portland Street), Pittville, Cheltenham with “Miss Higgins” (probably his sister Mary or Penelope) just before his second marriage in October 1838, to Maria, daughter of Joseph Brown Esq., of Baker Street, London; he took out a three-month subscription for Walks Only in the Pittville Gardens. His main residence was at Rosewood, Berkshire, and he served as a Magistrate in Herefordshire. In 1867 the Revd. Higgins published his Ritualism historically considered, chiefly in relation to the Lord’s Supper, and was presumably the author of The fallen angel, an historic lecture on the Devil and his doings, published the previous year. Higgins died at his home, 27 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London, in 1879. His estate at death was valued at under £35,000. ▶Moved to Pittville from: Stoulton, Worcestershire Moved from Pittville to: Stoulton, Worcestershire ▶Date of death: 9 October 1879 Place of death: 27 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London ▶Date of burial: Place of burial: ▶Notes: Walford ID: 19338 Contributor(s): John Simpson
Found no family members on the Pittville History Works Database (based on “relation to head” in the 1841-1911 census records and 1939 register records) |