Family and Education
bap. 12 June 1623,St Chad, Shrewsbury par. reg. transcript. 1st s. of Dr Thomas Higgons (c.1563-1635/6), rector of Westbury, Salop, and 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of Richard Barker of Haughmond Abbey, Salop.Le Neve’s Peds. of the Knights ed. G.W. Marshall (Harl. Soc. viii), 172; Vis. Salop 1623 (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 240-1; Al. Ox.; M. Temple Admiss. i. 137; B. Botfield, Stemmata Botevilliana (1858), 105. educ. Shrewsbury sch. 6 Feb. 1632;Shrewsbury School Reg. Scholarium 1562-1635 ed. E. Calvert (n.d.), 317. St Alban Hall, Oxf. 27 Apr. 1638, ‘aged 14’;Al. Ox. M. Temple, 4 Feb. 1640;M. Temple Admiss. i. 137. travelled abroad (Italy) bef. 1648.Bodl. Rawl. D.361, ff. 15v-16. m. (1) 1647 or 1648,Bodl. Rawl. D.361, f. 15v. Elizabeth (bur. 16 Sep. 1656), da. of Sir William Paulet of Edington, Wilts. and wid. of Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, 2da.; (2) lic. 11 Nov. 1661, Bridget (d. 1692), da. of Sir Bevill Grenvile* (d. 1643) of Stowe, Cornw. and wid. of Simon Leach of Chadleigh, Devon, 3s. 3da. (2 d.v.p).Peds. of the Knights, 172; Vis. Salop 1623, 240-1; London Marr. Lics. ed. Foster, 679; HP Commons 1660-1690. Kntd. 17 June 1663.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 238. d. 24 Nov. 1691.Al. Ox.
Offices Held
Local: commr. assessment, Salop 1661; Hants 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679, 1689 – d.; Westminster 1664; Devon 1664, 1672; subsidy, Devon, Hants, Westminster 1663;
Diplomatic: envoy extraordinary, Saxony 1668 – 69; Venice 1674–9.
Parlimentarian
: of Greywell, Hants.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title
HIGGONS, Thomas (?1623-91), of Greywell, Hants.
Will
28 Jan. 1686, cods. 18 Oct 1688 and 15 Apr. 1691, pr. 7 Dec. 1691 and 26 May 1693.PROB11/407/258.
Estates
inherited from fa. bef. 24 May 1636, £1,000, a tenement in Whitcott, par. of Norbury and the remainder of other property in Salop on the d. of his mo. (which occurred in 1649;PROB11/171/216 (Thomas Higgens); PROB11/209/235 (Elizabeth Higgons). from 1647 or 1648, claim to dower of w. Elizabeth (rent from manors in Staffs. and Warws.); ?from bef. 1655, house at Greywell, Hants (22 hearths in 1665); from c. 1655, The Tower, Acton Scott, Salop;VCH Salop, x. 14; Hants Hearth Tax 1665 (Hants Rec. Ser. xi), 200. from 1678, manor of Weston Corbett, Hants; from ?, manor of Parkers or Gerrards, Odiham, Hants.VCH Hants, iii. 387; iv. 94
Oxford 1644
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