James Macaulay Higginson Explained

Sir James Macaulay Higginson (1805  - 28 June 1885) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator who was Governor of Antigua from 1847 to 1850.

Early life

Higginson was born in County Antrim, Ireland,[1] the son of Major James Higginson and Mary Macaulay.[2] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3]

Career

He entered the Bengal Army in 1824.[3] He was secretary to Sir Charles Metcalfe, administrator in British India, and accompanied him when Metcalfe was posted to Jamaica and then Canada.[4] He was the eighth Governor of Mauritius. from 8 January 1851 to 20 September 1857.[5]

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1851 and Knight Commander of the Order in 1857.[6]

Personal life

In 1835 Higginson married Louisa Shakespear, the eldest daughter of Henry Davenport Shakespear, in Calcutta.[7] [4] Secondly, he married Olivia Nichola Dobbs at Leamington Spa, on 11 November 1854.[8] [9] A daughter of his second marriage, Sydney Harriet Maude Higginson, married Sir John Charles Kennedy, 3rd Baronet, in 1879.[10]

He died on 28 June 1885 in Tulfarris, County Wicklow, aged 79.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860) . Trinity College Dublin . 398 . 15 May 2019.
  2. Book: Walford . Edward . The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. Ed. Greatly Enl . 1864 . Hardwicke . 499 . 15 May 2019 . en.
  3. Book: Boase . Frederic . Modern English Biography: A-H . 1892 . Netherton and Worth . 1465 . 15 May 2019 . en.
  4. Book: Low, Ursula. Fifty years with John company: from the letters of General Sir John Low of Clatto, Fife, 1822-1858. 2 September 2017. 1936. J. Murray. 200.
  5. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mauritius.htm Mauritius
  6. 5581.
  7. India, Select Marriages, 1792–1948
  8. Web site: Biography – Higginson, Sir James Macaulay – Volume XI (1881–1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 27 April 2017.
  9. Book: Annual Register. 1855. J. Dodsley. 249.
  10. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2134.
  11. The Belfast Newsletter. p. 6. 6 July 1885

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