Men-at-the-Bar/Higgins, William Frederick
Higgins, William Frederick, a registrar in bankruptcy Nov., 1858, and taxing master, master of court of bankruptcy 21 Nov., 1863, private secretary to successive under-secretaries of state for the colonies 1847-58, private secretary to Lord Stanley and Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, secretaries of state 1858-9, formerly a clerk in the Colonial Office, educated at Eton, a student of Gray's Inn 22 April, 1844, called to the bar 28 April, 1847 (eldest son of Col. Sir Samuel Gordon Higgins, K.C.H.); born 21 Dec., 1818; married 1 July, 1843, (Hon.) Augusta Thesiger, dau. of Rt. Hon. Lord Chelmsford (see Foster's Peerage).
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