Charles Longuet Higgins

[3] The eldest son of John Higgins of Turvey Abbey, and Theresa, eldest daughter of Benjamin Longuet of Louth and Bath, Charles Longuet Higgins was born in his father's house on 30 November 1806.

He received his early education at home, and matriculated as a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge on 14 November 1825.

[9] Higgins restored the parish church, where George Gilbert Scott designed the new chancel (1852–4).

He built schools, a village museum, and cottages; and delivered lectures on natural history and other subjects.

[7] John William Burgon, his brother-in-law, included a biography of Higgins in his Twelve Good Men (1888).

[7] Clement considers that it shows the extent to which Higgins had moved from the evangelical views of his childhood and student days, towards a High Church position.

[2][16] Theresa Higgins bought numerous ethnographic exhibits at the 1806 sale of the Leverian Collection.

Some of the original Leverian lots certainly came finally to the British Museum; Kaeppler comments that exact accession routes remain opaque.