Background
The son of Robert Higgons, he was born at Chilton, near Brill, Buckinghamshire, and was educated partly in the free school at Thame in Oxfordshire.
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Theophilus Higgons
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Career
In November 1592 he became a student of Christ Church, Oxford, at the age of 14. He proceeded Bachelor of Arts 20 October 1597, and Master of Arts 4 June 1600. Higgons was inclined to Puritanism, and while censor at Christ Church he sawed down the maypole.
On the promotion of Thomas Ravis, Dean of Christ Church, as Bishop of Gloucester (17 March 1605), Higgons became his domestic chaplain, continuing with him till Ravis" translation to London (2 June 1607), when he became lecturer at Street Dunstan Fleet Street, and was popular as preacher.
After he had been established at Street Dunstan for some time, Higgons married. He did so practically in secret, and his congregation disliked what he had done.
He took the pseudonym Thomas Forster. He went on to Rouen, where he lived for some time.
But he found no preferment as a Catholic.
He then became rector of Hunton, Kent, near Maidstone. During the First English Civil War his living was sequestered, and he was taken into the house of a Daniel Collins of Maidstone. He died there in 1659 and was buried in Maidstone churchyard.
