Background
He was the second son of John Higgins of Turvey Abbey, Bedfordshire, the younger brother of Charles Longuet Higgins.
He was the second son of John Higgins of Turvey Abbey, Bedfordshire, the younger brother of Charles Longuet Higgins.
He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1836, Master of Arts
He is cited as an authority in scientific classification, as Higgins. in 1842. Higgins was inspector of the National Schools in Liverpool from 1842 to 1848 and chaplain to the Rainhill Asylum, also in Liverpool. He was president of the Liverpool Field Naturalists" Club from 1861 to 1881.
He especially worked on the Ravenhead collections, almost wholly made up of Upper Carboniferous flora, fish, bivalves and insect remains.
Higgins had suggested that Ravenhead donate his collections to the Liverpool Museum and the donation gained a home with the construction of the railway in 1870, which exposed two Carboniferous seams known as the Upper and Lower Ravenhead. Most of Liverpool Museum"s collections survived the Liverpool Blitz of May 1941 which practically destroyed the Museum itself, but the entire Ravenhead collection was lost in the fire.
The Turvey ammonite: a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, October 16, 8 pp. Education H. Education H. Education Doctorate. Republished by General Limited Liability Company, in 2010, 72 pp.
Education East. Genera (Heteroxyidae) Higginsia Higgin Species (Hookeriaceae) Hookeria higginsii Besch. ex Higgins (Dictyoneuridae) Dictyoneura higginsi Handlirsch (Pristidae) Myriosteon higginsi Gray Higgins married Anne Gouthwaite, daughter of John Topper Gouthwaite, in 1852.