Henry Higgs (4 March 1864 – 21 May 1940) was a British civil servant, economist, and historian of economic thought.
Following the end of the Second Boer War in June 1902, Higgs travelled to Natal to examine the working of the Civil Service of that colony on behalf of its government.
He was appointed Private Secretary of then-Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1905 serving for three years before returning to Treasury in 1908.
Keynes in his obituary of Higgs (The Economic Journal, 1940) explains that "the unfinished volumes of the Economic Bibliography, were based on [H. S.] Foxwell's collections, which Higgs edited for a Joint Committee, under the chairmanship of W.R. Scott, representing the British Academy, the RES and the Goldsmiths' Company, each of which contributed to the substantial expense.
"[9] Higgs was an early supporter of and contributor to Dictionary of Political Economy, Inglis Palgrave, ed., (1894, ..., 1908), to which he contributed 19 entries.