George Gore Ousley Higgins Explained

George Gore Ousley Higgins
Office:	Member of Parliament for Mayo
Term Start:	29 July 1850
Term End:	10 April 1857
Predecessor:	George Henry Moore Robert Dillon Browne
Successor:	George Henry Moore Roger Palmer
Alongside:	George Henry Moore
Birth Date:	15 October 1818
Nationality:	Irish
Party:	Whig
Otherparty:	Independent Irish

George Gore Ousley Higgins (15 October 1818 – 8 May 1874)^{[1] [2]} was an Irish Whig and Independent Irish Party politician.^{[3] [4] [5]}

The second son of Fitzgerald Higgins and Mary née Ouseley, Higgins first entered work as a civil servant for the Colony of Jamaica, and was also a Justice of the Peace for County Mayo.^[2]

Higgins was elected Whig MP for Mayo at a by-election in 1850—caused by the death of Robert Dillon Browne—and, becoming an Independent Irish MP in 1852, held the seat until 1857 when he stood again as Whig but was defeated.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "M" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 6 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181006211041/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm . 6 October 2018 . usurped . 23 June 2018 .
2. Book: Burke, John . Burke, John Bernard . John Burke (genealogist) . Bernard Burke . A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I — A to L . 1847 . . London . 571 . . 6 October 2018.
3. News: Notice . 6 October 2018 . Tipperary Free Press . 10 July 1850 . 3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
4. News: Dublin Weekly Nation . 6 October 2018 . 20 July 1850 . 8 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
5. News: The Mayo Election . 6 October 2018 . Galway Vindicator, and Connaught Advertiser . 31 July 1850 . 2–3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
6. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 978-0901714121. 302–303.